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Photobacterium marinum sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a sediment sample from Palk Bay, India.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 May 2013
Srinivas T N R, Vijaya Bhaskar Y, Bhumika V, Anil Kumar P
Abstract excerpt
The novel, cream colored, Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped, motile bacteria, designated strains AK15(T) and AK18, were isolated from sediment samples collected from Palk Bay, India. Both strains were positive for arginine dihydrolase, lysine decarboxylase, oxidase, nitrate reduction and methyl red test. The major fatty acids were C16:0, C18:1 ω7c, C16:1 ω7c and/or C16:1 ω6c and/or iso-C15:0 2-OH (summed feature...
Topics
- Bacterial Typing Techniques
- Bays
- Geologic Sediments
- India
- Phenotype
- Photobacterium
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
