Phycisphaerae

Phycisphaerae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Planctomycetes
Class:	Phycisphaerae; Fukunaga et al. 2010
Orders
	Phycisphaerales Fukunaga et al. 2010; Tepidisphaerales Kovaleva et al. 2015;

Phycisphaerae is a class of aquatic bacteria Containing a single order Phycisphaerales. They reproduce by budding and are found in samples of algae in marine water.[1] Organisms in this group are spherical[1] and have a holdfast, at the tip of a thin cylindrical extension from the cell body called the stalk, at the nonreproductive end that helps them to attach to each other during budding.

References

NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Chiba, Japan, mikurensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine alga, and proposal of Phycisphaeraceae fam. nov., Phycisphaerales ord. nov. and Phycisphaerae classis nov. in the phylum Planctomycetes, August 2009. retrieved 5 December 2015.

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[ncbi-1] NITE Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), Chiba, Japan, mikurensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a marine alga, and proposal of Phycisphaeraceae fam. nov., Phycisphaerales ord. nov. and Phycisphaerae classis nov. in the phylum Planctomycetes, August 2009. retrieved 5 December 2015.