PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Photobacterium >> Photobacterium leiognathi
PHOTOBACTERIUM LEIOGNATHI
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Photobacterium |
| Species: | Photobacterium leiognathi |
| Description: | Gram-negative, motile, coccobacilli, 1.6 x 3.2 μm.Colonies are smooth, transparent, convex, yellow, 1 mm in diameter. Grows on blood agar, BHI-agar, TSA supplemented with 1% NaCl, Thiosulfate citrate bile sucrose agar, and Marine agar; unable to grow in the absence of Na+. Grow in nutrient broth with 1-6% NaCl. Optimum temperature 30 ºC. No growth at 4 or 40 ºC.Facultative anaerobe, chemoorganotrophic, luminescent , no hemolysin production. |
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| Source: | Isolated from the light organs of fish from Leiognathidae and Apogonidae families (in warm, shallow, tropical water). |
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| Genbank: | NZ_JZSK00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 4.61 |
| GC %: | 40.9 |
| Genes: | 4,165 |
| CDS Number: | 3,818 |
| Reference: | An Thyssen , Frans Ollevier, 2004. Genus II . Photobacterium Beijerinck 1889. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second edition,Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief),pp. 546-555.,,J. G.Holt et al., 1994.Group 5 Facultatively anaerobic Gram-negative rods. Subgroup 2 Family Vibrionaceae.In:Begey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9-th edition, Williams & Wilkins.pp. 190-194, 256-257.,,Margaret S. Hendrie, J.M. Shewan ,1974.Genus IV.Photobacterium Beijerinck 1889. In: Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eighth Edition, R. E. Buchanan and N.E.Gibbons (Editors), The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore, 349-351 |
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