Article
Flaviramulus basaltis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from seafloor basalt.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Oct 2006
Einen Jørn, Øvreås Lise
Abstract excerpt
Four yellow-pigmented, Gram-negative, motile strains were isolated from the glassy rind of submarine basaltic lava from the Jan Mayen area of the Norwegian/Greenland Sea at a depth of 1300 m below sea level. The four strains had identical 16S rRNA gene sequences and were indistinguishable in all...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Fatty Acids
- Flavobacteriaceae
- Genes, rRNA
- Geologic Sediments
- Minerals
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Norway
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Seawater
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Silicates
- Species Specificity