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Rhodobacterales

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Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.^[1]

Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.^[2]

1 Etymology
2 References
3 Further reading
- 3.1 Scientific journals
- 3.2 Scientific books
4 External links

Etymology

From Greek rhodon, the rose, and bakterion, a rod. This refers to the colour of aerobic phototrophic cultures of this order of bacteria which can be pink or red due to the production of carotenoids.^[3]

References

^ See the NCBI webpage on Rhodobacterales. Data extracted from the "NCBI taxonomy resources". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2007-03-19.
^ Maxmen, A. (2010). "Virus-like particles speed bacterial evolution". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.507.
^ Imhoff JF (2015). "Rhodobacter. In Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (eds W. B. Whitman, F. Rainey, P. Kämpfer, M. Trujillo, J. Chun, P. DeVos, B. Hedlund and S. Dedysh)". doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00862. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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Rhodobacterales: Brief Summary

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Rhodobacterales are an order of the Alphaproteobacteria.

Gene transfer agents are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.

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Rhodobacterales