Name: Aquimarina macrocephali JCM 15542
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133597

Type strain:

Species: Aquimarina macrocephali

Culture col. no.: JCM 15542, NCIMB 14508, JAMB N27

Strain history: M. Miyazaki JAMB N27.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1443665 (strain), 666563 (species)

Section

Aquimarina macrocephali JCM 15542 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacteroidota*
	Class	*Flavobacteriia*
	Order	*Flavobacteriales*
	Family	*Flavobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Aquimarina*
	Species	**Aquimarina macrocephali**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Aquimarina macrocephali Miyazaki et al. 2010

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #29687]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #29687]	Cell length	3-25.5 µm

[Ref.: #29687]	Cell width	0.4-0.6 µm

[Ref.: #29687]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #29687]	Motility	yes

[Ref.: #29687]	Flagellum arrangement	gliding

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Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #29687]	growth	08-30 °C
[Ref.: #29687]	optimum	24 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	20 °C

[Ref.: #29687]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	psychrophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #29687]		NaCl		growth	01-04	%
[Ref.: #29687]		NaCl		optimum	02-03	%

[Ref.: #29687]	Observation	aggregates in chains
[Ref.: #67770]	Observation	quinones: MK-6

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #29687]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29687]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #29687]	trehalose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #29687]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #29687]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #29687]	Sample type/isolated from	sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Japan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	JPN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Host	#Other	#Decomposing animal
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AB517144 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquimarina macrocephali subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	92
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	33
Plant Samples
Total Samples	129

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

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #29687]	Aquimarina macrocephali gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB517144	1467	GenBank	1443665 tax ID

[Ref.: #29687]	GC-content	33.1 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	33.1 mol%	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

JCM 15542, NCIMB 14508, JAMB N27

Literature:

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Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquimarina sediminis sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment.	Wang NN, Zhou LY, Li YX, Du ZJ	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-018-1115-8	2018	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina aggregata sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Wang Y, Ming H, Guo W, Chen H, Zhou C	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001209	2016	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina pacifica sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Zhang Z, Yu T, Xu T, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.062695-0	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina longa sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of Aquimarina muelleri.	Yu T, Yin Q, Song X, Zhao R, Shi X, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.041509-0	2012	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina atlantica sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean.	Li G, Lai Q, Sun F, Liu X, Xie Y, Du Y, Li G, Shao Z	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0196-2	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina megaterium sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Yu T, Zhang Z, Fan X, Shi X, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.055517-0	2013	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina mytili sp. nov., isolated from the gut microflora of a mussel, Mytilus coruscus, and emended description of Aquimarina macrocephali.	Park SC, Choe HN, Baik KS, Seong CN	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.032904-0	2011	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina macrocephali sp. nov., isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses.	Miyazaki M, Nagano Y, Fujiwara Y, Hatada Y, Nogi Y	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.018747-0	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 )

#29687

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #26072 (see below)

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#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 .

#26072

IJSEM 2298 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.018747-0 , PubMed 19915102 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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