Rhodobacterales

Rhodobacterales
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order:
Garrity et al. 2006
Families[1]
  • Neomegalonemataceae Hördt et al. 2020
  • Paracoccaceae Liang et al. 2022
  • Roseobacteraceae Liang et al. 2021

Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.[2]

Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.[3]

  1. ^ Page Species: Anaerococcus nagyae on "LPSN - List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature". Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  2. ^ See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacterales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
  3. ^ Maxmen, A. (2010). "Virus-like particles speed bacterial evolution". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.507.
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