Ahrensia Explained

In taxonomy, Ahrensia is a genus of the Hyphomicrobiales.^[1] Ahrensia is named after the German microbiologist R. Ahrens. The cells are rod-shaped and motile. They are strictly aerobic.^[2]

See also

• List of bacterial genera named after personal names

Further reading

• Uchino Y, Hirata A, Yokota A, Sugiyama J . 1998 . Reclassification of marine Agrobacterium species: proposals of Stappia stellulata gen. nov., comb. nov., Stappia aggregata sp. nov., nom. rev., Ruegeria atlantica gen. nov., comb. nov., Ruegeria gelatinovora comb. nov., Ruegeria algicola comb. nov., and Ahrensia kieliense gen. nov., sp. nov., nom. rev . J. Gen. Appl. Microbiol. . 44 . 201 - 210 . 12501429 . 3 . 10.2323/jgam.44.201. free .
• Book: Garrity GM, Holt JG . 2001 . Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria . 2nd . DR Boone . RW Castenholz . 155–166 . Springer Verlag . New York . 978-0-387-98771-2 . registration . https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon/page/155 .

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Ahrensia. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.
2. Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. .