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HYPHOMONAS NEPTUNIUM
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Hyphomonas |
| Species: | Hyphomonas neptunium |
| Description: | Hyphomonas neptunium is a marine, biphasic prosthecate, which refers to an organism having a stalk or an appendage. Hyphomonas neptunium, as one of the eight species of the genus Hyphomanas, was first isolated from the seawater of Barcelona, Spain. It was originally named Hyphomicrobium neptium, but later was amended to its current name based on DNA homology. DNA-DNA hybridization information showed a closer relationship to Hyphomanas polymorpha(Pongratz.1957) and its inability to utilize C1 molecules as carbon source further supports its closer relationship to Polymorpha. Pongratz in 1957 first described the genus Hyphomonas upon isolation a budding prostecate bacterium from the nasal mucus of a diver with infectious sinusitis. Hyphomonas is unique in the sense that it does not divide by binary fusion but, rather divides by asymmetrical budding. The mother cell are non-motile while the daughters are motile, until they become mother cells themselves. |
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| Source: | Isolated from the seawater of Barcelona, Spain. |
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| Genbank: | NC_008358.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 3.71 |
| GC %: | 61.9 |
| Genes: | 3,518 |
| CDS Number: | 3,436 |
| Reference: | Jonathan H. Badger,1* Timothy R. Hoover,2 Yves V. Brun,3 Ronald M. Weiner,4 Michael T. Laub,5 Gladys Alexandre,6 Jan Mrázek,2 Qinghu Ren,1 Ian T. Paulsen,1 Karen E. Nelson,1 Hoda M. Khouri,1 Diana Radune,1 Julia Sosa,1 Robert J. Dodson,1 Steven A. Sullivan,1 M. J. Rosovitz,1 Ramana Madupu,1 Lauren M. Brinkac,1 A. Scott Durkin,1 Sean C. Daugherty,1 Sagar P. Kothari,1 Michelle Gwinn Giglio,1 Liwei Zhou,1 Daniel H. Haft,1 Jeremy D. Selengut,1 Tanja M. Davidsen,1 Qi Yang,1 Nikhat Zafar,1 and Naomi L. Ward1,7, "Comparative Genomic Evidence for a Close Relationship between the Dimorphic Prosthecate Bacteria Hyphomonas neptunium and Caulobacter crescentus". "Journal of Bacteriology, October 2006, p. 6841-6850, Vol. 188, No. 19. |
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