Microbacterium Explained
Microbacterium is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae. Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data.[1]
Species
Microbacterium comprises the following species:
- M. aerolatum Zlamala et al. 2002
- M. agarici Young et al. 2010
- M. album Yang et al. 2018
- M. algeriense Lenchi et al. 2020
- M. marinum Zhang et al. 2012
- M. maritypicum corrig. (ZoBell and Upham 1944) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
- M. testaceum (Komagata and Iizuka 1964) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
- M. thalassium Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
- "M. timonense" Ndiaye et al. 2019
- M. trichothecenolyticum Yokota et al. 1993) Takeuchi and Hatano 1998
- M. tumbae Nishijima et al. 2017
- M. ulmi Rivas et al. 2004
- M. ureisolvens Cheng et al. 2019
- M. wangchenii Dong et al. 2020
- M. xylanilyticum Kim et al. 2005
- M. yannicii Karojet et al. 2012
- M. zeae Gao et al. 2017
Notes and References
- Salter SJ, Cox MJ, Turek EM, Calus ST, Cookson WO, Moffatt MF, Turner P, Parkhill J, Loman NJ, ((Walker AW.)) . BMC Biol . 2014 . 12 . 87 . 10.1186/s12915-014-0087-z . Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses . 25387460 . 4228153 . free .