Cycloclasticus pugetii

Cycloclasticus pugetii is a species of bacterium found in marine sediments. It is notable for being able to break down aromatic hydrocarbon, including naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene and toluene. It is an aerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the family Piscirickettsiaceae, and it is motile by means of single polar flagellum. Strain PS-1 is its type strain.[1] It was named in honor of Peter Puget.

Cycloclasticus pugetii
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Thiotrichales
Family: Piscirickettsiaceae
Genus: Cycloclasticus
Species:
C. pugetii
Binomial name
Cycloclasticus pugetii
Dyksterhouse et al. 1995

References

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  1. ^ Dyksterhouse, S. E.; Gray, J. P.; Herwig, R. P.; Lara, J. C.; Staley, J. T. (1995). "Cycloclasticus pugetii gen. nov., sp. nov., an Aromatic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium from Marine Sediments". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 45 (1): 116–123. doi:10.1099/00207713-45-1-116. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 7857792.

Further reading

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  • Geiselbrecht, Allison D., et al. "Isolation of marine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-degrading Cycloclasticus strains from the Gulf of Mexico and comparison of their PAH degradation ability with that of Puget Sound Cycloclasticus strains." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 64.12 (1998): 4703–4710.
  • Maruyama, A.; Ishiwata, H.; Kitamura, K.; Sunamura, M.; Fujita, T.; Matsuo, M.; Higashihara, T. (2003). "Dynamics of Microbial Populations and Strong Selection for Cycloclasticus pugetii following the Nakhodka Oil Spill". Microbial Ecology. 46 (4): 442–453. doi:10.1007/s00248-002-3010-z. ISSN 0095-3628. PMID 12904913. S2CID 21849775.
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