PROTEOBACTERIA >> Gamma >> Photobacterium >> Photobacterium phosphoreum
PHOTOBACTERIUM PHOSPHOREUM
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Photobacterium |
| Species: | Photobacterium phosphoreum |
| Description: | Gram-negative, straight rods, 0.8-1.3 x 1.8-2.4 μm. Involution forms occur in old cultures and under adverse growth conditions. Motile by means of unsheathed polar flagella .Colonies are smooth, semitranslucent, convex, ivory.Facultative anaerobe, chemoorganotrophic, luminescent (due to the presence of luciferase). |
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| Source: | P. Phosphoreum is a psychrophilic, deepwater species found at depths of 50-500 m. Isolated from the light organs of five fish families (Macrouridae, Merluccidae, Opisthoproctidae, Trachichthydae, and Moridae) that are found in deep, cold waters.Sensible to O/129 vibriostatic agent (10 & 150 μg). |
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| Genbank: | NZ_LZFG00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 4.59 |
| GC %: | 39.4 |
| Genes: | 4,406 |
| CDS Number: | 4,255 |
| 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.,,. G.Holt et al., 1994.Group 5 Facultatively anaerobicGram-negative rods. Subgroup 2 Family Vibrionaceae.In:Begey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9-th edition, Williams & Wilkins.pp. 190-194,256-257. |
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