Rhodobacterales
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In taxonomy
, the Rhodobacterales are an order
of the Alphaproteobacteria
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Gene transfer agent
s are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.
Alpha taxonomy
Alpha taxonomy is the discipline concerned with finding, describing and naming species of living or fossil organisms. This field is supported by institutions holding collections of these organisms, with relevant data, carefully curated: such institutes include natural history museums, herbaria and...
, the Rhodobacterales are an order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
of the Alphaproteobacteria
Alphaproteobacteria
Alphaproteobacteria is a class of Proteobacteria. Like all Proteobacteria, they are Gram-negative.-Characteristics:The Alphaproteobacteria comprise most phototrophic genera, but also several genera metabolising C1-compounds , symbionts of plants and animals, and a group of pathogens, the...
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Gene transfer agent
Gene transfer agent
A gene transfer agent or "GTA" is a virus-like element that contains random pieces of the host chromosome and are found in most members of the alphaproteobacteria order Rhodobacterales. They are encoded by the host genome...
s are viruslike elements produced by Rhodobacterales which transfer DNA and may be an important factor in their evolution.