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SALIPIGER MUCESCENS
| Class: | Alpha Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Salipiger |
| Species: | Salipiger mucescens |
| Description: | Salipiger mucescens is a moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing, Gram-negative rod isolated from a hypersaline habitat in Murcia in south-eastern Spain. The bacterium is chemoheterotrophic and strictly aerobic (i.e. unable to grow under anaerobic conditions either by fermentation or by nitrate or fumarate respiration). It does not synthesize bacteriochlorophyll a. Catalase and phosphatase are positive. It does not produce acids from carbohydrates. It cannot grow with carbohydrates or amino acids as sole sources of carbon and energy. It grows best at 9–10 % w/v NaCl and requires the presence of Na+ but not Mg2+ or K+. |
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| Source: | Isolated from hypersaline soil, belonging to the α-Proteobacteria. |
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| Reference: | MARTÍNEZ-CÁNOVAS (M.J.), QUESADA (E.), MARTÍNEZ-CHECA (F.), del MORAL (A.) and BÉJAR (V.): Salipiger mucescens gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium isolated from hypersaline soil, belonging to the α-Proteobacteria. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1735-1740. |
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