Arthrobacter and related genera

Arthrobacter are very common in many soils and are readily isolated in laboratory media and so they have been isolated extensively from soils. There are many species known and this chapter offers a detailed description of the Arthrobacter genus. This entry describes Arthrobacter species with an emphasis on the ability of many of the strains to transform anthropogenic chemicals into less toxic products. There are very many Arthrobacter species listed on this taxonomic site. Arthrobacter globiformis is the type strain. At one time, it was considered that Arthrobacter are obligate aerobes, but this study demonstrated that some Arthrobacter can grow on nitrate as the final electron acceptor under anaerobic conditions. This database contains information on phages of Acti-nobacteria. The specific page referenced contains lists of phages of Arthrobacter. Arthrobacter are very often associated with cheese ripening and the most common species isolated is A. ari-laitensis. Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus metabolizes chlorophe-nols, including the highly toxic pentachlorophenol. This page is the entry for information on the genome of this organism. This link is for a thesis on the biodegradative strain Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.