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The Family Halomonadaceae

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The Prokaryotes

Introduction

The family Halomonadaceae, within the Gammaproteobacteria, consists mostly of marine and moderately halophilic microorganisms that are phenotypically rather diverse. Because of this apparent lack of a core of differential phenotypic traits, many of its current species were previously assigned to other genera such as Deleya (now extinct), Alcaligenes, Pseudomonas, Halovibrio, Volcaniella, etc. Reorganizations among these species started by the mid 1990s with the aid of 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison. In the meanwhile, new descriptions within the family Halomonadaceae have been reported, and the increasing number of species led some authors to review its phylogeny (Arahal et al., 2002a) and phenotypic features (Mata et al., 2002).

A Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of the Halomonadaceae, a member of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, was constituted recently (Vreeland and Ventosa, 2003) and can be taken as a sign of the increasing interest in this...

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  1. Department of Microbiology University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota, 196, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

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  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, 69978, Ramat-Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  4. Department of Microbiology, Technical University Munich, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

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    Erko Stackebrandt

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Arahal, D.R., Ventosa, A. (2006). The Family Halomonadaceae. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30746-X_28

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