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VIBRIO CARIBBEANICUS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Vibrio |
| Species: | Vibrio caribbeanicus |
| Description: | Cells are slightly curved, Gram-negative, motile rods with one polar flagellum (approx. 1.0μm wide and 2.5–3.1μm long).Good growth occurs on marine agar and on TSA supplemented with 1 % NaCl (w/v) at 28°C for 24 h. Colonies are cream coloured, translucent and smooth-rounded with a diameter of 1–2 mm, motile but not swarming. |
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| Source: | Isolated from a marine sponge (Scleritoderma cyanea;phylum Porifera) collected from a depth of 795 feet(242 m) off the west coast of Curaçao. |
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| Genbank: | NZ_JRWR00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 4.56 |
| GC %: | 43.9 |
| Genes: | 4,128 |
| CDS Number: | 4,016 |
| Reference: | HOFFMANN (M.), MONDAY (S.R.), ALLARD (M.W.), STRAIN (E.A.), WHITTAKER (P.), NAUM (M.), McCARTHY (P.J.), LOPEZ (J.V.), FISCHER (M.) and BROWN (E.W.): Vibrio caribbeanicus sp. nov., isolated from marine sponge Scleritoderma cyanea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2012, 62, 1736-1743. |
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