Genus of bacteria
Rhodobacter
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Rhodobacter
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Type species
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Rhodobacter capsulatus
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Species[2]
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- Rhodobacter aestuarii Venkata Ramana et al. 2009
- Rhodobacter azotoformans Hiraishi et al. 1997
- Rhodobacter blasticus corrig. (Eckersley and Dow 1981) Kawasaki et al. 1994
- Rhodobacter capsulatus (Molisch 1907) Imhoff et al. 1984
- Rhodobacter johrii Girija et al. 2010
- Rhodobacter maris Venkata Ramana et al. 2008
- Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008
- Rhodobacter ovatus Srinivas et al. 2008
- Rhodobacter sphaeroides (van Niel 1944) Imhoff et al. 1984
- Rhodobacter veldkampii Hansen and Imhoff 1985
- Rhodobacter vinaykumarii Srinivas et al. 2007
- Rhodobacter viridis Shalem Raj et al. 2013
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Synonyms[2]
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- Bieblia Hördt et al. 2020
- Fuscovulum Suresh et al. 2020
- Phaeovulum Suresh et al. 2020
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In taxonomy, Rhodobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.[3] The most famous species of Rhodobacter are Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Rhodobacter capsulatus, which are used as model organisms to study bacterial photosynthesis.[citation needed]