Aureispira

Aureispira is a Gram-positive and aerobic genus from the family of Saprospiraceae.[1][2][3][4] Aureispira gets its energy from a process called ixotrophy which allows it to attack different cells.(Furusawa et al.)

Aureispira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Sphingobacteriia
Order:	Sphingobacteriales
Family:	Saprospiraceae
Genus:	Aureispira Hosoya et al. 2006[1]
Type species
Aureispira marina[1]
Species
A. marina[1] A. maritima[1]

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Aureispira". LPSN.
2. "Aureispira". www.uniprot.org.
3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Osier, Nicole Danielle; Garrity, George M. "Nomenclature Abstract for Aureispira Hosoya et al. 2006 emend. Hosoya et al. 2007". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.10360.
4. "Aureispira". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1 January 2015. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00356.

Further reading

• Furusawa, Go; Harzell, Patricia L.; Navaratnam, Visweswaran (1 October 2015). "Calcium is required for ixotrophy of Aureispira sp. CCB-QB1". Microbiology. 161 (10): abstract. doi:10.1099/mic.0.000158.

• Hosoya, S.; Arunpairojana, V.; Suwannachart, C.; Kanjana-Opas, A.; Yokota, A. (1 September 2007). "Aureispira maritima sp. nov., isolated from marine barnacle debris". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (9): 1948–1951. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64928-0. PMID 17766852.
• Hosoya, S.; Arunpairojana, V.; Suwannachart, C.; Kanjana-Opas, A.; Yokota, A. (1 December 2006). "Aureispira marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a gliding, arachidonic acid-containing bacterium isolated from the southern coastline of Thailand". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (12): 2931–2935. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64504-0. PMID 17159001.
• Hartzell, Patricia L.; Navaratnam, Visweswaran; Furusawa, Go (1 October 2015). "Calcium is required for ixotrophy of Aureispira sp. CCB-QB1". Microbiology. 161 (10): 1933–1941. doi:10.1099/mic.0.000158. PMID 26306656.