Alcaligenaceae

Sample of Bordetella bronchiseptica, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Belongs within: Burkholderiales.

The Alcaligenaceae are a diverse group of Gram-negative bacteria united by molecular phylogenetic analysis. Members have been found in a range of terrestrial and aquatic environments, with some being animal pathogens.

<==Alcaligenaceae
    |  i. s.: Pelistega europaea GH01, CVC03
    |         Sutterella GH01
    |         Taylorella equigenitalis GH01, CVC03
    |--Alcaligenes CVF03
    |    |--*A. faecalis CVC03
    |    |    |--A. f. var. faecalis PHK96
    |    |    `--A. f. var. myxogenes PHK96
    |    |--A. defragans CVF03
    |    `--A. eutrophus NL03
    `--+--Pigmentiphaga kullae CVF03
       `--+--Kerstersia Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVF03, CVC03
          |    `--*K. gyiorum Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVC03
          `--+--Achromobacter Yabuuchi & Yano 1981 CVF03
             |    |  i. s.: A. lyticus WGJ98
             |    |--+--A. piechaudii [=Alcaligenes piechaudii] CVF03
             |    |  `--A. spanius Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVF03
             |    `--+--*A. xylosoxidans CVF03
             |       `--+--A. insolitus Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVF03
             |          `--+--A. denitrificans (Rüger & Tan) Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVF03, CVC03 (see below for synonymy)
             |             `--A. ruhlandii [=Alcaligenes ruhlandii] CVF03
             `--Bordetella CVF03
                  |--B. petrii CVF03
                  `--+--B. avium CVF03
                     `--+--B. trematum CVF03
                        `--+--B. hinzii CVF03
                           `--+--+--*B. pertussis CVC03, CVF03
                              |  `--B. holmesii CVF03
                              `--+--B. bronchiseptica CVF03
                                 `--B. parapertussis CVF03

Achromobacter denitrificans (Rüger & Tan) Coenye, Vancanneyt et al. 2003 CVF03, CVC03 [=Alcaligenes denitrificans Rüger & Tan 1983 CVC03, Achromobacter xylosoxidans ssp. denitrificans CVC03]

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[CVC03] Coenye, T., M. Vancanneyt, M. C. Cnockaert, E. Falsen, J. Swings & P. Vandamme. 2003. Kerstersia gyiorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Alcaligenes faecalis-like orgtanism isolated from human clinical samples, and reclassification of Alcaligenes denitrificans Rüger and Tan 1983 as Achromobacter denitrificans comb. nov. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1825–1831.

[CVF03] Coenye, T., M. Vancanneyt, E. Falsen, J. Swings & P. Vandamme. 2003. Achromobacter insolitus sp. nov. and Achromobacter spanius sp. nov., from human clinical samples. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 53: 1819–1824.

[GH01] Garrity, G. M., & J. G. Holt. 2001. The road map to the Manual. In: Boone, D. R., R. W. Castenholz & G. M. Garrity (eds) Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology 2nd ed. vol. 1. The Archaea and the Deeply Branching and Phototrophic Bacteria pp. 119–166. Springer.

[NL03] Notomista, E. A. Lahm, A. Di Donato & A. Tramontano. 2003. Evolution of bacterial and archaeal multicomponent monooxygenases. Journal of Molecular Evolution 56: 435–445.

[PHK96] Prescott, L. M., J. P. Harley & D. A. Klein. 1996. Microbiology 3^rd ed. Wm. C. Brown Publishers: Dubuque (Iowa).

[WGJ98] Wright, D. S., L. D. Graham & P. A. Jennings. 1998. Cloning of a Lysobacter enzymogenes gene that encodes an arginyl endopeptidase (endoproteinase Arg-C). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1443: 369–374.