Name: Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133212

Type strain:

Species: Rickettsia asembonensis

Strain Designation: NMRCii

Culture col. no.: DSM 100172, CDC CRIRC RAS001, ATCC VR-1827

NCBI tax ID(s): 1068590 (species)

Section

Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii is an obligate aerobe, mesophilic bacterium of the family Rickettsiaceae.

mesophilic
obligate aerobe
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rickettsiales*
	Family	*Rickettsiaceae*
	Genus	*Rickettsia*
	Species	"Candidatus Rickettsia asembonensis"
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Candidatus Rickettsia asembonensis corrig. Jiang et al. 2013

	Synonym	"Candidatus* Rickettsia asemboensis"*
	Synonym	**Rickettsia asembonensis**

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Cultivation medium used

Schneider’s Drosophila medium

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

Schneider’s Drosophila medium

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #25024]			growth	25 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

obligate aerobe

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii	GCA_000828125	contig	GenBank	1068590 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia asembonensis NMRCii	2802429295	complete	JGI IMG/M	1068590 tax ID	*

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GC-content

32.28 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 100172, CDC CRIRC RAS001, ATCC VR-1827

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Isolation and characterization of a novel Rickettsia species (Rickettsia asembonensis sp. nov.) obtained from cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis).	Maina AN, Luce-Fedrow A, Omulo S, Hang J, Chan TC, Ade F, Jima DD, Ogola E, Ge H, Breiman RF, Njenga MK, Richards AL	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001382	2016	*
Genetics	Whole-Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Rickettsia asemboensis" Strain NMRCii, Isolated from Fleas of Western Kenya.	Jima DD, Luce-Fedrow A, Yang Y, Maina AN, Snesrud EC, Otiang E, Njenga K, Jarman RG, Richards AL, Hang J	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00018-15	2015	*

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 )

#25024

A. N. L.-F. Maina, A.,Omulo, S.,Hang, J.,Chan, T. C.,Ade, F.,Jima, D. D.,Ogola, E.,Ge, H.,Breiman, R. F.,Njenga, M. K.,Richards, A. L.: Isolation and characterization of a novel Rickettsia species (Rickettsia asembonensis sp. nov.) obtained from cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis). IJSEM 66: 4512 - 4517 2016 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001382 , PubMed 27506201 )

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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