Species of bacterium
Sphingomonas stygia is a species of bacteria. It is an aromatic compound-degrading bacteria, it is gram-negative , non-spore -forming, non-motile and rod-shaped. It is found in deep-terrestrial-subsurface sediments.[ 1]
References
^ Balkwill, D. L.; Drake, G. R.; Reeves, R. H.; Fredrickson, J. K.; White, D. C.; Ringelberg, D. B.; Chandler, D. P.; Romine, M. F.; Kennedy, D. W.; Spadoni, C. M. (1997). "Taxonomic Study of Aromatic-Degrading Bacteria from Deep-Terrestrial-Subsurface Sediments and Description of Sphingomonas aromaticivorans sp. nov., Sphingomonas subterranea sp. nov., and Sphingomonas stygia sp. nov" . International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology . 47 (1): 191– 201. doi :10.1099/00207713-47-1-191 ISSN 0020-7713 . PMID 8995822 .
Further reading
Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
Takeuchi, Mariko; Hamana, Koei; Hiraishi, Akira (2001). "Proposal of the genus Sphingomonas sensu stricto and three new genera, Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Sphingopyxis, on the basis of phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses" . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 51 (4): 1405– 1417. doi :10.1099/00207713-51-4-1405 PMID 11491340 .
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