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Thalassomonas loyana sp. nov., a causative agent of the white plague-like disease of corals on the Eilat coral reef.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Feb 2006
Thompson F L, Barash Y, Sawabe T, Sharon G, Swings J, Rosenberg E
Abstract excerpt
The taxonomic position of the coral pathogen strain CBMAI 722T was determined on the basis of molecular and phenotypic data. We clearly show that the novel isolate CBMAI 722 T is a member of the family Colwelliaceae, with Thalassomonas ganghwensis as the nearest neighbour (95 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). CBMAI 722T can be differentiated from its nearest neighbour on the basis of phenotypic and...
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