Bacillus mojavensis (DSM 30645, ES2-W8a2)

Name: Bacillus mojavensis (DSM 30645, ES2-W8a2)
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BacDive ID 1098

Type strain

Strain Designation ES2-W8a2

Culture col. no. DSM 30645 ES2-W8a2

NCBI tax ID(s) 72360

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Bacillus mojavensis ES2-W8a2 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory.

mesophilic

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397976

DSM 30645

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:01

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Species Bacillus mojavensis

Full scientific name Bacillus mojavensis Roberts et al. 1994

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Bacillus mojavensis** (13)	Type strain
1093	B. mojavensis RO-H-1, DSM 9205, ATCC 51516, NRRL B-14698, ... (type strain)
1094	B. mojavensis TU-A-8, DSM 9206, NRRL B-14714
1095	B. mojavensis Béjar CR-119, CR-119, CR-119T, DSM 18911, ...
1096	B. mojavensis ES1-188-1, DSM 30539
1097	B. mojavensis ES2-W5c2, DSM 30632
1099	B. mojavensis E7, DSM 30861
1100	B. mojavensis E16, DSM 30871
1101	B. mojavensis E22, DSM 30877
131049	B. mojavensis T4_5, DSM 100542
131050	B. mojavensis T4_15, DSM 100545
135375	B. mojavensis T-G-2-42, CIP 104096, NRRL B-14817
135398	B. mojavensis TU-A-7, CIP 104097, NRRL B-14816
136272	B. mojavensis IM-A-224, CIP 104098, NRRL B-14704

Morphology

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Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17026	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (Merck 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
17026	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Clean room

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17026	spacecraft-associated clean room class ISO 8, Herschel Space Observatory	Noordwijk, European Space Research and Technology Centre	Netherlands	NLD	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17026	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#17026	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 30645
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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