Aquiflexum balticum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides group isolated from surface water of the central Baltic Sea

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2335-2341

  Brettar, Ingrid ^a   Christen, Richard ^b   Höfle, Manfred G ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CAROTENOID; CATALASE; FATTY ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; RNA 16S; SURFACE WATER;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUIFLEXUM BALTICUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; BALTIC SEA; BELLIELLA BALTICA; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL SHAPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLOBACTERIUM MARINUM; DNA CONTENT; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; CAROTENOIDS; CATALASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENES, RRNA; GENTIAN VIOLET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENAZINES; PHYLOGENY; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANKTON; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AQUIFLEXUM BALTICUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BELLIELLA BALTICA; CYCLOBACTERIUM MARINUM; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED MARINE BACTERIUM;

EID: 9744222794     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.63255-0     Document Type: Article

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