Burkholderiales

The Burkholderiales are an order of Betaproteobacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota.<ref name=Bergey>George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Vol. 2: The Proteobacteria Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteabacteria Template:ISBN</ref> Like all Pseudomonadota, they are Gram-negative. They include several pathogenic bacteria, including species of Burkholderia, Bordetella, and Ralstonia.<ref name=Bergey /> They also include Oxalobacter and related genera, which are unusual in using oxalic acid as their source of carbon.<ref name=Bergey /> Other well-studied genera include Alcaligenes, Cupriavidus, Achromobacter, Comamonas, Delftia, Massilia, Duganella, Janthinobacterium, Polynucleobacter (important freshwater bacterioplankton), non-pathogenic Paraburkholderia, Caballeronia, Polaromonas, Thiomonas, Collimonas, Hydrogenophaga, Sphaerotilus, Variovorax, Acidovorax, Rubrivivax and Rhodoferax (both members of the photosynthetic purple nonsulfur bacteria), and Herbaspirillum (capable of nitrogen-fixation).

External links

• Burkholderiales J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature