Rhodobacterales Explained

Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.^[1]

Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.^[2]

Etymology

From Greek rhodon, the rose, and bakterion, a rod. This refers to the colour of aerobic phototrophic cultures of this order of bacteria which can be pink or red due to the production of carotenoids.^[3]

Further reading

Scientific journals

• Cavalier-Smith . T . 2002 . The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification . Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. . 52 . 7 - 76 . 11837318 . Pt 1 . 10.1099/00207713-52-1-7. free .
• Woese CR, Stackebrandt E, Weisburg WG, Paster BJ, Madigan MT, Fowler VJ, Hahn CM, Blanz P, Gupta R, Nealson KH, Fox GE . 1984 . The phylogeny of purple bacteria: the alpha subdivision . Syst. Appl. Microbiol. . 5 . 3 . 315 - 326 . 11541974 . 10.1016/s0723-2020(84)80034-x.

Scientific books

• Book: Garrity GM, Bell JA, Lilburn TG . 2004 . Taxonomic Outline of the Prokaryotes . 10.1007/bergeysoutline200310 . Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, release 5.0 . 2nd . Springer Verlag . New York. 31 January 2024 .

Notes and References

1. See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacterales. Data extracted from the Web site: NCBI taxonomy resources . . 2007-03-19.
2. Maxmen . A.. Virus-like particles speed bacterial evolution. Nature. 2010. 10.1038/news.2010.507.
3. Imhoff JF . Rhodobacter. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds W. B. Whitman, F. Rainey, P. Kämpfer, M. Trujillo, J. Chun, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund and S. Dedysh). . 2015. 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00862.