Reclassification of a parathione-degrading Flavobacterium sp. ATCC 27551 as Sphingobium fuliginis

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 249-255

  Kawahara, Kazuyoshi ^a   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Yoon, Jaewoo ^b   Yokota, Akira ^b  

^a KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Flavobacterium; Glycosphingolipid; Organophosphorus hydrolase; Parathion; Sphingobium fuliginis

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYMYRISTIC ACID; FATTY ACID; GENOMIC DNA; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; MYRISTIC ACID; PALMITIC ACID; RNA 16S; UBIDECARENONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCENIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHILIPPINES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPHINGOBIUM FULIGINIS; SPHINGOBIUM HERBICIDOVORANS; SPHINGOMONADACEAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BENZOQUINONES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FATTY ACIDS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; INSECTICIDES; PARATHION; PHYLOGENY; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM SP. ATCC 27551; SPHINGOBIUM; SPHINGOBIUM HERBICIDOVORANS; SPHINGOMONADACEAE;

EID: 77954706318     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.56.249     Document Type: Article

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