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Rubritalea marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine representative of the phylum ‘Verrucomicrobia’, isolated from a sponge (Porifera)
1 Sept 2006
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A marine bacterium, strain Pol012(T), was isolated from the Mediterranean sponge Axinella polypoides and subsequently characterized as belonging to subphylum 1 of the phylum 'Verrucomicrobia'. Strain Pol012(T) was non-motile, Gram-negative, coccoid or rod-shaped and red in colour. The menaquinones MK-8 and MK-9 were detected. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 50.9 mol%. Growth was possible at temperatures...
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