Prosthecochloris indica sp. nov., a novel green sulfur bacterium from a marine aquaculture pond, Kakinada, India

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-169

  Kumar, Pinnaka Anil ^a   Srinivas, Tanuku Naga Radha ^a   Sasikala, Chintalapati ^a   Ramana, Chintalapati Venkata ^b   Süling, Jorg ^c   Imhoff, Johannes ^c  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria; Aquaculture ponds and 16S rRNA gene based phylogeny; Bacteriochlorophyll c; Chlorobiaceae; Green sulfur bacteria; Marine bacteria; Prosthecochloris

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLL; CAROTENOID; RNA 16S; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SULFIDE; THIOSULFATE;

AQUACULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHLOROBI; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; INDIA; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROSTHECOCHLORIS INDICA; PROSTHECOCHLORIS VIBRIOFORMIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SALT TOLERANCE;

AQUACULTURE; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; CHLOROBI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; INDIA; MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEAWATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLOROBI; CHLOROBIACEAE; COCCOIDEA; NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIA; PROSTHECOCHLORIS; PROSTHECOCHLORIS VIBRIOFORMIS;

EID: 67649160137     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.55.163     Document Type: Article

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