Ancylobacter sonchi

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Ancylobacter | species = sonchi | authority = Agafonova, 2017 }}

'''''Ancylobacter sonchi''''' is a bacterial species in the family Xanthobacteraceae.

== Discovery == ''Ancylobacter sonchi'' was first isolated from the rhizoshpere of ''Sonchus arvensis'', commonly known as field sow thistle, in Pushchino, Moscow.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last1=Agafonova |first1=Nadezhda V. |last2=Kaparullina |first2=Elena N. |last3=Trotsenko |first3=Yuri A. |last4=Doronina |first4=Nina V. |date=2017 |title=Ancylobacter sonchi sp. nov., a novel methylotrophic bacterium frоm roots of Sonchus arvensis L. |url=https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002330 |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |volume=67 |issue=11 |pages=4552–4558 |doi=10.1099/ijsem.0.002330 |issn=1466-5034|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

== Description == ''Ancylobacter sonchi'' is rod-shaped, with widths of 0.4-.0.5 µm and lengths of 0.6-1.0 µm. When grown on methanol mineral salts medium, colonies appear white, shiny, opaque, and convex. When grown on R2A agar, colonies appear yellow, translucent, and glossy. It is gram-negative, strictly aerobic, and motile.<ref name=":0" /> It grows at temperatures of 10-30°C, with optimal growth at temperatures of 22-29°C.<ref name=":0" /> It grows at pH leves of 6.0-9.0. It is capable of using many common sugars for growth, including glucose, arabinose, xylose, and fructose. It is catalase-, oxidase-, and urease-positive.<ref name=":0" />

== Phylogeny == Within ''Ancylobacter'', ''A. sonchi'' is believed to be most closely related to ''A. defluvii'' and ''A. pratisalsi''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hördt |first1=Anton |last2=López |first2=Marina García |last3=Meier-Kolthoff |first3=Jan P. |last4=Schleuning |first4=Marcel |last5=Weinhold |first5=Lisa-Maria |last6=Tindall |first6=Brian J. |last7=Gronow |first7=Sabine |last8=Kyrpides |first8=Nikos C. |last9=Woyke |first9=Tanja |last10=Göker |first10=Markus |date=2020 |title=Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria |journal=Frontiers in Microbiology |volume=11 |pages=468 |doi=10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 |doi-access=free |issn=1664-302X |pmc=7179689 |pmid=32373076}}</ref>

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Category:Hyphomicrobiales