pseudomonad

Example: a member of the Pseudomonas genus is a pseudomonad, while two are pseudomonads.

Like most bacteria genera the pseudomonad last common ancestor lived hundreds of millions of years ago.

Mean machine: a soil-dwelling pseudomonad.

For example, the genus Pseudomonas is "pseudomonad" (plural: "pseudomonads").

Alternatively, a pseudomonad ancestor could have contained the genes for and produced pdtc, but this function could have been lost from most strains.

Customs are present for centain names, such as those ending in -monas are converted into -monad (one pseudomonad, two aeromonads and not -monades).

Interestingly, Ps-MoeZ had higher similarity to seven sequences of mycobacterial, streptomycete, and cyanobacterial origin than to the most similar pseudomonad sequence (Table 2).

It is not unreasonable that a pseudomonad coexisting in the soil with cyanobacteria, mesorhizobium, streptomycete, and free-living mycobacteria could acquire moeZ from one of these species.

Note that the term 'pseudomonad' does not apply strictly to just the Pseudomonas genus, and can be used to also include previous members such as the genera Burkholderia and Ralstonia.

Pdtc production in bacteria other than P. stutzeri strain KC is limited to P. putida strain To8 and one other unclassified pseudomonad strain [ 36 ] .

P. stutzeri and P. putida are closely related, both belonging to rRNA homology group I [ 37 ] , so they may be descendants of the original pseudomonad that acquired moeZ by LGT.