The genus Frateuria comprises bacteria formerly classified as Acetobacter aurantius (Kondo and Ameyama, 1958). These are strains isolated from the plant Lilium auratum, which are brown, pigment-producing, polarly flagellated, acetic acid-like bacteria. They were thought by Asai (1968) to be an evolutionary “intermediate” between Pseudomonas and Gluconobacter, and the position of these “intermediate” strains was discussed in a separate chapter. Within the acetic acid bacteria, their assignment either to Gluconobacter or Acetobacter has been difficult (Swings et al., 1980; Yamada et al., 1976). Since DNA-rRNA hybridization studies showed that these isolates are quite removed from the family Acetobacteraceae, the new genus Frateuria was created for them (Swings et al., 1980). Frateuria belongs in the Proteobacteria in subclass gamma sensu Stackebrandt et al. (1988) (see The proteobacteria: Ribosomal RNA Cistron Similarities and Bacterial Taxonomy in the second edition). In Bergey’s Manual...
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Swings, J. (2006). The Genus Frateuria. 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_30
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