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Descriptions of Rhodopseudomonas parapalustris sp. nov., Rhodopseudomonas harwoodiae sp. nov. and Rhodopseudomonas pseudopalustris sp. nov., and emended description of Rhodopseudomonas palustris.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Aug 2012
Ramana V Venkata, Chakravarthy S Kalyana, Raj P Shalem, Kumar B Vinay, Shobha E, Ramaprasad E V V, Sasikala Ch, Ramana Ch V
Abstract excerpt
Four strains (JA310(T), JA531(T), JA447 and JA490) of red to reddish brown pigmented, rod-shaped, motile and budding phototrophic bacteria were isolated from soil and freshwater sediment samples from different geographical regions of India. All strains contained bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids of the spirilloxanthin series. The major cellular fatty acid of strains JA310(T) and JA531(T) was C(18:1)ω7c, the...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- Fresh Water
- Geologic Sediments
- India
- Lipids
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny