Name: Aquimarina gracilis PSC32
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 133890

Type strain:

Species: Aquimarina gracilis

Strain Designation: PSC32

Culture col. no.: KCTC 23301, JCM 17453

Strain history: <- Chi Nam Seong, Sunchon Natl. Univ.

NCBI tax ID(s): 874422 (species)

Section

Aquimarina gracilis PSC32 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from mussel.

Gram-negative
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 gracilis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Aquimarina gracilis Park et al. 2013

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #30783]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #67771]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #30783]	Cell length	4 µm

[Ref.: #30783]	Cell width	0.25 µm

[Ref.: #30783]	Cell shape	rod-shaped
[Ref.: #67771]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #30783]	Motility	no
[Ref.: #67771]	Motility	no

[Ref.: #30783]

Pigment production

yes

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #30783]	growth	15-37 °C
[Ref.: #30783]	optimum	27.5 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	25 °C
[Ref.: #67771]	growth	25 °C

[Ref.: #30783]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67771]	Temperature range	mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #30783]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #30783]			growth	07-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #30783]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe
[Ref.: #67771]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #30783]		NaCl		growth	01-05	%
[Ref.: #30783]		NaCl		optimum	2	%

[Ref.: #30783]	Observation	aggregates in clumps
[Ref.: #67771]	Observation	quinones: MK-6

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #30783]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #30783]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #30783]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #30783]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

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

[Ref.: #30783]	Sample type/isolated from	mussel

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Mussel Mytilus coruscus from Gwangyang Bay (34° 53' N 127° 46' E)
[Ref.: #67770]	Host species	Mytilus coruscus
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Republic of Korea
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	KOR
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location	34.8500°/127.7830°

[Ref.: #67771]	Sample type/isolated from	From mussel `Mytilus coruscus`
[Ref.: #67771]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	the South Sea
[Ref.: #67771]	Country	Republic of Korea
[Ref.: #67771]	Country ISO 3 Code	KOR
[Ref.: #67771]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #67771]	Geographic location	34.8833°/127.7670°
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Invertebrates (Other)

#Mollusca

What are isolation sources categories?

[Ref.: #69479]

Global distribution of 16S sequence HM998909 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquimarina gracilis subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	15
Soil Samples
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	15

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.: #30783]	Aquimarina gracilis strain PSC32 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	HM998909	1460	GenBank	874422 tax ID

[Ref.: #67771]

GC-content

36.9 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #30783]

Culture collection no.

KCTC 23301, JCM 17453

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquimarina penaei sp. nov., isolated from intestinal tract contents of Pacific white shrimp, Penaeus vannamei.	Li X, Wang L, Huang H, Lai Q, Shao Z	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0292-3	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina gracilis sp. nov., isolated from the gut microflora of a mussel, Mytilus coruscus, and emended description of Aquimarina spongiae.	Park SC, Choe HN, Baik KS, Seong CN	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.044289-0	2012	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina acroporae sp. nov., isolated from seawater surrounding scleractinian coral Acropora digitifera.	Sun H, Rao C, Yang X, Xie Z, Chen B, Zheng H, Liao B, Xiao B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.005607	2022	*

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 )

#30783

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 #27114 (see below)

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

#27114

IJSEM 1782 2013 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.044289-0 , PubMed 22941302 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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