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Sphingopyxis ummariensis sp. nov., isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane dump site.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Apr 2010
Sharma Pooja, Verma Mansi, Bala Kiran, Nigam Aeshna, Lal Rup
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A Gram-negative, motile, rod-shaped, yellow-pigmented bacterium, strain UI2(T), was isolated from a hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) dump site located in Ummari, in northern India. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain UI2(T) belongs to the genus Sphingopyxis and showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with Sphingopyxis terrae IFO 15098(T) (98.6 %). DNA-DNA relatedness values between strain...
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