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"Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis" (DSM 21084, KCTC 13227, JSM 079157)

BacDive ID 130204

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 21084 KCTC 13227 JSM 079157

NCBI tax ID(s) 578220 1872700

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"Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis" DSM 21084 is an aerobe, spore-forming, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from seawater.

spore-forming motile rod-shaped aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 397891

KCTC 13227,DSM 21084

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:00:56

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Virgibacillus

Species "Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis"

Full scientific name Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis Peng et al. 2009

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Gram stain
67771	rod-shaped		peritrichous
67771				positive

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
21984	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
21984	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
67771	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

67771

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Type of spore	Spore formation
67771	endospore

Observation

67771

Observationquinones: MK-7

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
21984	seawater	Naozhou Island, South China Sea	China	CHN	Asia
67771	From surface seawater off the east coastline of Naozhou Island	near a southern China city, Zhanjiang	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence FJ425904 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	2
Soil Samples	12
Animal Samples	2
Plant Samples
Total Samples	16

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
21984	Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis strain JSM 079157 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	FJ425904	1503		578220

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
21984	39.5
67771	39.5	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	'Gracilibacillus phocaeensis' sp. nov., 'Sediminibacillus massiliensis' sp. nov. and 'Virgibacillus ndiopensis' sp. nov., three halophilic species isolated from salty human stools by culturomics.	Senghor B, Khelaifia S, Bassene H, Seck EH, Fournier PE, Sokhna C, Raoult D, Lagier JC.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2017.08.006	2017
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from a dairy product.	Seiler H, Wenning M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.051565-0	2013
Genetics	Virgibacillus senegalensis sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from human gut.	Seck E, Rathored J, Khelaifia S, Croce O, Robert C, Couderc C, Di Pinto F, Sokhna C, Raoult D, Lagier JC.	New Microbes New Infect	10.1016/j.nmni.2015.09.014	2015
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from sea water.	Peng QZ, Chen J, Zhang YQ, Chen QH, Peng DJ, Cui XL, Li WJ, Chen YG	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-009-9381-0	2009

References

#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 )
#21984	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21084
#67771	Korean Collection for Type Cultures (KCTC) ; Curators of the KCTC;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#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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"Virgibacillus zhanjiangensis" (DSM 21084, KCTC 13227, JSM 079157)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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