Guyparkeria is a genus in the Gammaproteobacteria. Both species are obligate aerobic bacteria; they require oxygen to grow. They are also halophilic and have varying degrees of thermophilicity. They live in environments with high concentrations of salt or other solutes, such as in hydrothermal vent plumes or in hypersaline playas, and do require high sodium ion concentrations in order to grow, as is also the case in the other genus of the same family, Thioalkalibacter
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Both species of this genus were originally published as members of the genus Thiobacillus,[2][3] before they were reclassified in 2000 to Halothiobacillus,[4] as Halothiobacillus halophilus and Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis, both of which reclassified on the grounds or morphological, genomic and physiological differences to the newly designated genus Guyparkeria in 2017, as Guyparkeria halophila and Guyparkeria hydrothermalis.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d Boden R (2017). "Reclassification of Halothiobacillus hydrothermalis and Halothiobacillus halophilus to Guyparkeria gen. nov. in the Thioalkalibacteraceae fam. nov., with emended descriptions of the genus Halothiobacillus and family Halothiobacillaceae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67: 3919–3928. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.002222. hdl:10026.1/9982. PMID 28884673. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
- ^ Wood AP, Kelly DP (1991). "Isolation and characterisation of Thiobacillus halophilus sp. nov., a sulfur-oxidising autotrophic eubacterium from a Western Australian hypersaline lake". Archives of Microbiology. 156: 277–280. doi:10.1007/BF00262998.
- ^ Durand P, Reysenbach AL, Prieur D, Pace N (1993). "Isolation and characterization of Thiobacillus hydrothermalis sp. nov., a mesophilic obligately chemolithotrophic bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in Fiji Basin". Archives of Microbiology. 159: 39–44. doi:10.1007/BF00244261.
- ^ Kelly, D.P., and Wood, A.P. "Reclassification of some species of Thiobacillus to the newly designated generus Acidithiobacillus gen. nov., Halothiobacillus gen. nov. and Thermithiobacillus gen. nov." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2000) 50:489-500.