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Erythrobacter vulgaris sp. nov., a novel organism isolated from the marine invertebrates.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Mar 2005
Ivanova Elena P, Bowman John P, Lysenko Anatoly M, Zhukova Natalia V, Gorshkova Nataliya M, Kuznetsova Tatyana A, Kalinovskaya Nataliya I, Shevchenko Ludmila S, Mikhailov Valery V
Abstract excerpt
Four yellow-pigmented, gram-negative, chemoorganotrophic aerobic bacteria were isolated from starfish Stellaster equestris (strains 022-2-10T, 022-2-9, and 022-2-12) and soft coral (unidentified species) (strain 022-4-7) collected in the South China Sea. 16S rRNA gene sequence-based analyses of the new organisms revealed that Erythrobacter spp. were the closest relatives and shared the highest similarity of 98.7%...
Topics
- Animals
- Anthozoa
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny