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THIOMICROSPIRA HALOPHILA
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Thiomicrospira |
| Species: | Thiomicrospira halophila |
| Description: | Cells are Gram-negative vibrios (0.3–0.5 x 1–2μm), highly motile due to a single polar flagellum. Colonies on thiosulfate agar at 1–2 M NaCl reach a maximum diameter of 1 mm and are convex, circular and silver–white (because of sulfur accumulation). Strictly aerobic, with a tendency for microaerophilism. Grows chemolithoautotrophically with thiosulfate and sulfide, oxidizing them to sulfate with elemental sulfur as an intermediate. |
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| Source: | isolated from hypersaline inland lakes in south-western Siberia (Altai, Russia) |
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| Genbank: | NZ_ARAR00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 2.36 |
| GC %: | 54.9 |
| Genes: | 2,210 |
| CDS Number: | 2,127 |
| Reference: | SOROKIN (D.Y.), TOUROVA (T.P.), KOLGANOVA (T.V.), SPIRIDONOVA (E.M.), BERG (I.A.) and MUYZER (G.): Thiomicrospira halophila sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, obligately chemolithoautotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from hypersaline lakes. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2006, 56, 2375-2380. |
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