Rubrobacter

Rubrobacter is a genus of Actinomycetota.^[4][1] It is radiotolerant and may rival Deinococcus radiodurans in this regard.^[5][4]

Rubrobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Rubrobacteria
Order:	Rubrobacterales
Family:	Rubrobacteraceae
Genus:	Rubrobacter Suzuki et al. 1989[1][2]
Type species
Rubrobacter radiotolerans (Yoshinaka, Yano & Yamaguchi 1973) Suzuki et al. 1989
Species[3]
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Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[6][7][8]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[9][10][11]

Rubrobacter R. taiwanensis Chen et al. 2004 R. xylanophilus Carreto et al. 1996 R. calidifluminis Albuquerque et al. 2014 R. naiadicus Albuquerque et al. 2014 R. spartanus Norman et al. 2017 R. marinus Chen et al. 2020 R. tropicus Chen et al. 2020 R. aplysinae Kämpfer et al. 2014 R. bracarensis Jurado et al. 2013 R. indicoceani Chen et al. 2018 R. radiotolerans (Yoshinaka, Yano & Yamaguchi 1973) Suzuki et al. 1989

Rubrobacter R. taiwanensis R. xylanophilus R. calidifluminis R. naiadicus R. indicoceani R. radiotolerans R. tropicus R. aplysinae R. marinus

Incertae sedis:

• "R. wessexii"

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders
• Catacombs § Bacteria
• Polyextremophile