Pedobacter

Pedobacter is a genus of Gram-negative soil-associated bacteria. Species including Pedobacter heparinus, formerly known as Flavobacterium heparinum, produce heparinase and are capable of using heparin as their sole carbon and nitrogen source.^[1]

Pedobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Bacteroidota
Class:	Sphingobacteriia
Order:	Sphingobacteriales
Family:	Sphingobacteriaceae
Genus:	Pedobacter Steyn et al. 1998
Species
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In molecular biology, Pedobacter has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.^[2]

Species

• Pedobacter africanus
• Pedobacter agri
• Pedobacter alluvionis
• Pedobacter arcticus
• Pedobacter borealis
• Pedobacter cryoconitis
• Pedobacter ginsengisoli
• Pedobacter heparinus
• Pedobacter insulae
• Pedobacter jejuensis
• Pedobacter lentus
• Pedobacter lusitanus^[3]
• Pedobacter nyackensis
• Pedobacter rhizosphaerae
• Pedobacter soli
• Pedobacter terricola