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Rhodobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodobacterales
Family:	Rhodobacteraceae
Genus:	Rhodobacter Imhoff et al. 1984^[1]
Type species
Rhodobacter capsulatus
Species^[2]
Rhodobacter aestuarii Venkata Ramana et al. 2009 Rhodobacter azotoformans Hiraishi et al. 1997 Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994 Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984 Rhodobacter johrii Girija et al. 2010 Rhodobacter maris Venkata Ramana et al. 2008 Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008 Rhodobacter ovatus Srinivas et al. 2008 Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984 Rhodobacter veldkampii Hansen and Imhoff 1985 Rhodobacter vinaykumarii Srinivas et al. 2007 Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013
Synonyms^[2]
Bieblia Hördt et al. 2020 Fuscovulum Suresh et al. 2020 Phaeovulum Suresh et al. 2020

Intaxonomy, Rhodobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.^[3] The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.^{[citation needed]}

References[edit]

^ Garrity GM, Holt JG (2001). "Taxonomic Outline of the Archaea and Bacteria". In Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds.). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology Volume 1: The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Verlag. pp. 155–166. ISBN 978-0-387-98771-2.

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