Article
Aequorivita gen. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from terrestrial and marine Antarctic habitats.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Sept 2002
Bowman John P, Nichols David S
Abstract excerpt
Several strains isolated from Antarctic winter sea water, sea-ice algal assemblages and quartz stone subliths were found to belong to a novel 16S rDNA sequence cluster within the family Flavobacteriaceae (Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides division). The strains were gram-negative, non-motile,...
Topics
- Antarctic Regions
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Fatty Acids
- Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- Seawater