Deinococcus

Taxonomy ID: 1298 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1298)

current name

Deinococcus  Brooks and Murray 1981 in [Brooks BW & Murray RGE (1981)]

homotypic synonym:

Deinococcus  Brooks and Murray 1981 emend. Rainey et al. 1997 , emended name  ¹⁾

NCBI BLAST name: bacteria
Rank: genus
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:

heterotypic synonym

Deinobacter  Oyaizu et al. 1987

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Thermotogati; Deinococcota; Deinococci; Deinococcales; Deinococcaceae

Notes:

• 1) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.

Comments and References:

Brooks BW & Murray RGE (1981) Brooks, B.W., and Murray, R.G.E. "Nomenclature for 'Micrococcus radiodurans' and other radiation-resistant cocci: Deinococcaceae fam. nov. and Deinococcus gen. nov., including five species." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1981) 31(3):353-360. [No PubMed record available.]

Deinococcus (LPSN link)

Deinobacter (LPSN link)

Oyaizu H et al. (1987) Oyaizu, H., Stackebrandt, E., Schleifer, K.H., Ludwig, W., Pohla, H., Ito, H., Hirata, A., Oyaizu, Y., and Komagata, K. "A radiation-resistant rod-shaped bacterium, Deinobacter grandis gen. nov., sp. nov., with peptidoglycan containing ornithine." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1987) 37:62-67. [No PubMed record available.]

Rainey FA et al. (1997) Rainey, F.A., Nobre, M.F., Schumann, P., Stackebrandt, E., and da Costa, M.S. "Phylogenetic diversity of the deinococci as determined by 16S ribosomal DNA sequence comparison." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1997) 47(2):510-514.