Ammoniphilus Explained

Ammoniphilus is a Gram-variable, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, haloalkalitolerant spore-forming, obligately oxalotrophic and motile bacterial genus from the family of Paenibacillaceae with peritrichous flagella.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} In the cell wall of Ammoniphilus is meso-diaminopimelic acid.^[4]

Further reading

• Young. Chiu-Chung. Lin. Shih-Yao. Liu. You-Cheng. Wu. Yun-Hsuan. Hameed. Asif. Ammoniphilus resinae sp. nov., an endospore-forming bacterium isolated from resin fragments. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 1 August 2016. 66. 8. 3010–3016. 10.1099/ijsem.0.001137. 27151144. free.
• Zaitsev. G. M.. Tsitko. I. V.. Rainey. F. A.. Trotsenko. Y. A.. Uotila. J. S.. Stackebrandt. E.. Salkinoja-Salonen. M. S.. New aerobic ammonium-dependent obligately oxalotrophic bacteria: description of Ammoniphilus oxalaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ammoniphilus oxalivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 January 1998. 48. 1. 151–163. 10.1099/00207713-48-1-151. 9542085. free.

Notes and References

1. Zaitsev. G. M.. Tsitko. I. V.. Rainey. F. A.. Trotsenko. Y. A.. Uotila. J. S.. Stackebrandt. E.. Salkinoja-Salonen. M. S.. New aerobic ammonium-dependent obligately oxalotrophic bacteria: description of Ammoniphilus oxalaticus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Ammoniphilus oxalivorans gen. nov., sp. nov.. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 1 January 1998. 48. 1. 151–163. 10.1099/00207713-48-1-151. 9542085. free.
2. Book: Paul. De Vos. Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology.. 2009. Springer. Dordrecht. 0-387-68489-1. 2nd.
3. Ammoniphilus. www.uniprot.org.
4. Rainey. Fred A.. Ammoniphilus. Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. 1 January 2015. 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00548. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. en.