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The Family Erythrobacteraceae

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Erythrobacteraceae is one of the two families that belong to the order Sphingomonadales, and it is affiliated with the class Alphaproteobacteria. The family Erythrobacteraceae includes five genera – Altererythrobacter, Croceicoccus, Erythrobacter, Erythromicrobium and Porphyrobacter – for a total of 33 species, including 29 with validly published names and 4 new species. Members of the family are Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped or pleomorphic coccoid bacteria; they are motile or nonmotile, chemo-organotrophic, produce pigments (yellow, orange, red or pink), and do not form spores. Some species require biotin. Most members contain bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a), several types of carotenoids, and monosaccharide-type glycosphingolipid. Representatives of the clade have been isolated from diverse environments: wild rice, cold-seep sediment, desert sand, tepid water, seawater, tidal flats, marine sediment, and marine invertebrates. Whole-genome sequencing has been reported in only two genera of the Erythrobacteraceae family, including Erythrobacter (three strains) and Porphyrobacter (one strain). Family members offer a valuable source of information for further studies focused on aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic (AAP) metabolism, physiological nature, and high potential for biotechnological purposes by the presence of important hydrolases.

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  1. Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, 373, 21941-902, Ilha do Fundão, RJ, Brazil

    Luciane A. Chimetto Tonon & Ana Paula B. Moreira

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 48-305, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Luciane A. Chimetto Tonon

  3. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

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  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Tonon, L.A.C., Moreira, A.P.B., Thompson, F. (2014). The Family Erythrobacteraceae. In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30197-1_376

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