Rhodospirillaceae (lat.) - a family of bacteria from the type of proteobacteria . Most of them are purple nonsulfur bacteria that receive energy through photosynthesis ; Initially, all purple non-sulfur bacteria were included in this family [2] [3] .
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| Class: | Alpha proteobacteria |
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Rhodospirillaceae Pfennig and Trüper 1971 |
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Rhodospirillum typus - Azospirillum
- Caenispirillum
- Constrictibacter
- Defluvicoccus
- Desertibacter
- Dongia
- Elstera
- Ferrovibrio
- Fodinicurvata
- Inquilinus
- Insolitispirillum
- Limimonas
- Magnetospira
- Magnetospirillum
- Magnetovibrio
- Marispirillum
- Nisaea
- Novispirillum
- Oceanibaculum
- Pelagibius
- Phaeospirillum
- Phaeovibrio
- Rhodocista
- Rhodospira
- Rhodospirillum
- Rhodovibrio
- Roseospira
- Skermanella
- Telmatospirillum
- Thalassobaculum
- Thalassospira
- Tistlia
- Tistrella
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Typically, these bacteria are found in anaerobic aquatic habitats, such as dirt and stagnant water, although they can survive in normal atmospheric conditions [2] .
The family also includes the genus Magnetospirillum , whose representatives contain tiny chains of magnetite [2] . This allows them to navigate relative to the Earth’s magnetic field and sink to the bottom of the reservoir, where the oxygen concentration is low ( magnetotaxis ). Similar chains of magnetite were found in Martian meteorites , which can be considered evidence of the existence of life there [4] .