Agreia

Agreia
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Actinobacteria"
Class: Actinobacteria
Subclass: Actinobacteridae
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Micrococcineae
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Agreia
Type species
A. bicolorata

Agreia is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria).[1]

Etymology

The generic name Agreia honours Nina S. Agre, a Russian microbiologist.[2]

Species

The genus contains two species:[2]

  • A. bicolorata ( Evtushenko et al. 2001, type species of the genus; Latin bis, twice; coloratus, coloured; to give bicolorata, two-coloured.)[3]
  • A. pratensis [(Behrendt et al. 2002) Schumann et al. 2003; Latin pratensis, found in meadows/grassland][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. ]
  2. 1 2 Agreia entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. ]
  3. ↑ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/6/2073
  4. ↑ Reclassification of Subtercola pratensis Behrendt et al. 2002 as Agreia pratensis comb. nov
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