Aquimarina macrocephali (JCM 15542, NCIMB 14508, JAMB N27)

Name: Aquimarina macrocephali (JCM 15542, NCIMB 14508, JAMB N27)
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BacDive ID 133597

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 15542 NCIMB 14508 JAMB N27

NCBI tax ID(s) 1443665 666563

Special Collections JCM Literature strains

History JCM <-- M. Miyazaki JAMB N27.

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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 genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 132205

JCM 15542,NCIMB 14508

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:07

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Aquimarina

Species Aquimarina macrocephali

Full scientific name Aquimarina macrocephali Miyazaki et al. 2010

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Flagellum arrangement	Confidence
29687	negative	3-25.5 µm	0.4-0.6 µm	rod-shaped		gliding
125439	negative						98.597

Pigmentation

29687

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
29687	positive	growth	08-30
29687	positive	optimum	24
67770	positive	growth	20

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
29687	aerobe
125439	obligate aerobe	96.531

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
29687
125439		98.962

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
29687	NaCl	positive	growth	01-04 %
29687	NaCl	positive	optimum	02-03 %

Observation

@ref	Observation
29687	aggregates in chains
67770	quinones: MK-6

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
29687	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
29687	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
29687	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
29687	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
29687	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment
#Host	#Other	#Decomposing animal
#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
29687	sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses
67770	Sediment adjacent to a sperm whale carcass off Kagoshima	Japan	JPN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

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	0
Total Samples	129

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	of Aquimarina macrocephali assembly for Aquimarina macrocephali JAMB N27	contig	GCA_000520995	1443665.3	2585427800	1443665	38.84

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
29687	Aquimarina macrocephali gene for 16S ribosomal RNA, partial sequence	AB517144	1467		1443665

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
29687	33.1
67770	33.1	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: of Aquimarina macrocephali assembly for Aquimarina macrocephali JAMB N27
NCBI: GCA_000520995

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	96.53	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.60	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	69.53	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.96	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Microbiota Dysbiosis in Mytilus chilensis Is Induced by Hypoxia, Leading to Molecular and Functional Consequences.	Montufar-Romero M, Valenzuela-Miranda D, Valenzuela-Munoz V, Morales-Rivera MF, Gallardo-Escarate C.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms13040825	2025
Pathogenicity	Shell Disease Syndrome Is Associated with Reduced and Shifted Epibacterial Diversity on the Carapace of the Crustacean Cancer pagurus.	Bergen N, Kramer P, Romberg J, Wichels A, Gerlach G, Brinkhoff T.	Microbiol Spectr	10.1128/spectrum.03419-22	2022
	Draft Genome Sequence of the Putative Marine Pathogen Aquimarina sp. Strain I32.4.	Ranson HJ, LaPorte J, Spinard E, Chistoserdov AY, Gomez-Chiarri M, Nelson DR, Rowley DC.	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomea.00313-18	2018
Genetics	Gut microbiota associated with cryptococcal meningitis and dysbiosis caused by anti-fungal treatment.	Li H, Zhang L, Zhang K, Huang Y, Liu Y, Lu X, Liao W, Liu X, Zhang Q, Pan W.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.1086239	2022
	Diseases of marine fish and shellfish in an age of rapid climate change.	Rowley AF, Baker-Austin C, Boerlage AS, Caillon C, Davies CE, Duperret L, Martin SAM, Mitta G, Pernet F, Pratoomyot J, Shields JD, Shinn AP, Songsungthong W, Srijuntongsiri G, Sritunyalucksana K, Vidal-Dupiol J, Uren Webster TM, Taengchaiyaphum S, Wongwaradechkul R, Coates CJ.	iScience	10.1016/j.isci.2024.110838	2024
	Aquimarina sp. Associated With a Cuticular Disease of Cultured Larval Palinurid and Scyllarid Lobsters.	Ooi MC, Goulden EF, Trotter AJ, Smith GG, Bridle AR.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.573588	2020
Metabolism	Automated structure prediction of trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthase products.	Helfrich EJN, Ueoka R, Dolev A, Rust M, Meoded RA, Bhushan A, Califano G, Costa R, Gugger M, Steinbeck C, Moreno P, Piel J.	Nat Chem Biol	10.1038/s41589-019-0313-7	2019
Genetics	Methane-yielding microbial communities processing lactate-rich substrates: a piece of the anaerobic digestion puzzle.	Detman A, Mielecki D, Plesniak L, Bucha M, Janiga M, Matyasik I, Chojnacka A, Jedrysek MO, Blaszczyk MK, Sikora A.	Biotechnol Biofuels	10.1186/s13068-018-1106-z	2018
Metabolism	Aquimarina aquimarini sp. nov. and Aquimarina spinulae sp. nov., novel bacterial species with versatile natural product biosynthesis potential isolated from marine sponges.	Couceiro JF, Marques M, Silva SG, Keller-Costa T, Costa R.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006228	2024
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 )
#26072	IJSEM 2298 2010 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.018747-0 , PubMed 19915102 )
#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
#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 .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Aquimarina macrocephali (JCM 15542, NCIMB 14508, JAMB N27)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_000520995

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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