Article
Bacillus horneckiae sp. nov., isolated from a spacecraft-assembly clean room.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2010
Vaishampayan Parag, Probst Alexander, Krishnamurthi Srinivasan, Ghosh Sudeshna, Osman Shariff, McDowall Alasdair, Ruckmani Arunachalam, Mayilraj Shanmugam, Venkateswaran Kasthuri
Abstract excerpt
Five Gram-stain-positive, motile, aerobic strains were isolated from a clean room of the Kennedy Space Center where the Phoenix spacecraft was assembled. All strains are rod-shaped, spore-forming bacteria, whose spores were resistant to UV radiation up to 1000 J m(-2). The spores were subterminally positioned and produced an external layer. A polyphasic taxonomic study including traditional biochemical tests,...
Topics
- Bacillus
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Environmental Microbiology
- Fatty Acids
- Genes, rRNA
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization