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Porphyrobacter meromictius sp. nov., an appendaged bacterium, that produces Bacteriochlorophyll a.
Current microbiology - 1 Oct 2007
Rathgeber Christopher, Yurkova Natalia, Stackebrandt Erko, Schumann Peter, Humphrey Elaine, Beatty J Thomas, Yurkov Vladimir
Abstract excerpt
Four Gram-negative strains (ML4(T), ML19, ML31, ML32) of nonmotile, appendaged, budding bacteria were isolated from the meromictic Mahoney Lake in British Columbia, Canada. The strains were red to brown-red in color and produced bacteriochlorophyll a incorporated into photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. Phylogenetic analysis has placed these strains within the class Alphaproteobacteria, with the closest...
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