Blastomonas

Blastomonas is a Gram-negative, photoheterotrophic, strictly aerobic and non-spore-forming bacteria genus from the family of Sphingomonadaceae.[1][2][3][4]

Blastomonas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Sphingomonadales
Family:	Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:	Blastomonas Sly and Cahill 1997[1]
Type species
Blastomonas natatoria[1]
Species
B. aquatica[1] B. natatoria[1]
Synonyms
Erythromonas[2]

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Blastomonas". LPSN.
2. "Blastomonas". www.uniprot.org.
3. Sly, Lindsay I.; Hugenholtz, Philip (1 January 2015). "Blastomonas". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 1–7. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00918.
4. Peter T., Doran; W. Berry, Lyons; Diane M., McKnight (2010). Life in Antarctic Deserts and other Cold Dry Environments: Astrobiological Analogs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1-139-48754-X.

Further reading

• Zeng, Y.; Koblizek, M.; Feng, F.; Liu, Y.; Wu, Z.; Jian, J. (14 March 2013). "Whole-Genome Sequences of an Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototroph, Blastomonas sp. Strain AAP53, Isolated from a Freshwater Desert Lake in Inner Mongolia, China". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00071-13–e00071-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00071-13. PMC 3622956. PMID 23516202.
• Xiao, N.; Liu, Y.; Liu, X.; Gu, Z.; Jiao, N.; Liu, H.; Zhou, Y.; Shen, L. (27 February 2015). "Blastomonas aquatica sp. nov., a bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium isolated from lake water". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65 (Pt 5): 1653–1658. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.000153. PMID 25724744.
• George M., Garrity (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology (2nd ed.). New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-24145-0.