Name: Virgibacillus chiguensis NTU-101
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134251

Type strain:

Species: Virgibacillus chiguensis

Strain Designation: NTU-101

Culture col. no.: BCRC 17637, CGMCC 1.6496

NCBI tax ID(s): 411959 (species)

Section

Virgibacillus chiguensis NTU-101 is an aerobe, spore-forming, Gram-positive bacterium that was isolated from Saltern.

Gram-positive
motile
rod-shaped
spore-forming
aerobe
16S sequence
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	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	*Bacillaceae*
	Genus	*Virgibacillus*
	Species	**Virgibacillus chiguensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Virgibacillus chiguensis Wang et al. 2008

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32119]	Gram stain	positive
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #32119]	Cell length	3.75 µm

[Ref.: #32119]	Cell width	0.8 µm

[Ref.: #32119]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32119]	Motility	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	yes Confidence in %96.02

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #32119]			growth	15-50 °C
[Ref.: #32119]			optimum	40 °C

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Temperature range

thermophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32119]			optimum	7.5
[Ref.: #32119]			growth	05-09

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #32119]	Ability of spore formation	yes
[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	yes Confidence in %100

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32119]		NaCl		growth	0-30	%
[Ref.: #32119]		NaCl		optimum	7.5	%

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32119]	cellobiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32119]	esculin ChEBI	+	hydrolysis
[Ref.: #32119]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32119]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32119]	maltose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32119]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32119]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #32119]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32119]	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
[Ref.: #32119]	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
[Ref.: #32119]	alpha-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.22
[Ref.: #32119]	gelatinase	+

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

[Ref.: #32119]	Sample type/isolated from	Saltern
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Condition	#Saline	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Non-marine Saline and Alkaline
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence EF101168 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	178
Soil Samples	349
Animal Samples	356
Plant Samples	255
Total Samples	1138

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.: #32119]	Virgibacillus chiguensis strain Halo30-9 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EF101168	1465	GenBank	411959 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Virgibacillus chiguensis CGMCC 1.6496	GCA_900129865	scaffold	GenBank	411959 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Virgibacillus chiguensis strain CGMCC 1.6496	411959.4	wgs	PATRIC	411959 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Virgibacillus chiguensis CGMCC 1.6496	2675903063	draft	JGI IMG/M	411959 tax ID	*

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GC-content

37.3 mol%

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Virgibacillus chiguensis CGMCC 1.6496 NCBI: GCA_900129865.1
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	yes	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Virgibacillus chiguensis CGMCC 1.6496 NCBI: GCA_900129865.1
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	yes	87.226	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	yes	84.31	no
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	91.429	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	98.898	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	83.318	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	yes	91.064	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	yes	96.26	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	86.314	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	90.338	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	82.705	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

BCRC 17637, CGMCC 1.6496

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Virgibacillus chiguensis sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium isolated from Chigu, a previously commercial saltern located in southern Taiwan.	Wang CY, Chang CC, Ng CC, Chen TW, Shyu YT	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64996-0	2008	*

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 )

#32119

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 #28364 (see below)

#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) .

#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 .

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69481

Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#28364

IJSEM 341 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64996-0 , PubMed 18218928 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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