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Pseudoalteromonas maricaloris sp. nov., isolated from an Australian sponge, and reclassification of [Pseudoalteromonas aurantia] NCIMB 2033 as Pseudoalteromonas flavipulchra sp. nov.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jan 2002
Ivanova Elena P, Shevchenko Ludmila S, Sawabe Tomoo, Lysenko Anatolii M, Svetashev Vasilii I, Gorshkova Nataliya M, Satomi Masataka, Christen Richard, Mikhailov Valery V
Abstract excerpt
A marine, gram-negative, aerobic bacterium that produced cytotoxic, lemon-yellow, chromopeptide pigments that inhibited the development of sea urchin eggs has been isolated from the Australian sponge Fascaplysinopsis reticulata Hentschel. The cells of the organism were rod-shaped with a single polar flagellum and they required NaCl for growth (0.5-10%) with optimum growth at 1-3% NaCl. The temperature for growth...
Topics
- Animals
- Australia
- Base Composition
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Fatty Acids
- Gammaproteobacteria
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype