Rhodoplanes
Genus of bacteria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhodoplanes is a phototrophic genus of bacteria.[2][1][3][4] Rhodoplanes produces hopanoids like diplopterol, tetrahymanol, 2-methyldiplopterol, 2-methyltetrahymanol, bacteriohopanetetrol, bacteriohopaneaminotriol and carotenoids like spirilloxanthin, rhodopin, anhydrorhodovibrin, 1,1′-dihydroxylycopene and 3,4,3′,4′-tetrahydrospirilloxanthin[5][6]
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Genus: | Rhodoplanes Hiraishi and Ueda 1994[1] |
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Rhodoplanes roseus[1] (Janssen and Harfoot 1991) Hiraishi and Ueda 1994 | |
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