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Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus

species of bacterium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ16992325 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus is a species of bacterium, the type species of its genus.

Description

It is an obligately aerobic, bacteriochlorophyll a-containing bacteria.

References

Further reading

Yurkov, Vladimir; Gad'on, Nasser; Drews, Gerhart (1993). "The major part of polar carotenoids of the aerobic bacteria Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus RB3 and Erythromicrobium ramosum E5 is not bound to the bacteriochlorophyll a-complexes of the photosynthetic apparatus". Archives of Microbiology. 160 (5). doi:10.1007/BF00252223. ISSN 0302-8933. S2CID 24889229.

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"Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus".

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“Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus” enters the record as species of bacterium. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roseococcus, thiosulfatophilus and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewUseful for establishing the present vocabulary of the subject while preserving a route back to the evidence on which that vocabulary rests. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 1007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roseococcus, thiosulfatophilus and species.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16992325. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 1007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Roseococcus thiosulfatophilus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.