Name: Brucella ceti BCCN 94-74
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134292

Type strain:

Species: Brucella ceti

Culture col. no.: BCCN 94-74, NCTC 12891

NCBI tax ID(s): 520457 (strain), 120577 (species)

Section

Brucella ceti BCCN 94-74 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from Skin of porpoise.

Gram-negative
ovoid-shaped
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	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Hyphomicrobiales*
	Family	*Brucellaceae*
	Genus	*Brucella*
	Species	**Brucella ceti**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Brucella ceti Foster et al. 2007

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32291]	Gram stain	negative
[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	negative Confidence in %99.976

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell length	1.05 µm

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell width	0.6 µm

[Ref.: #32291]	Cell shape	ovoid-shaped

[Ref.: #32291]	Motility	no

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #32291]			growth	20-40 °C
[Ref.: #32291]			optimum	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32291]			optimum	7
[Ref.: #32291]			growth	6.6-7.4

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %100
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.994

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Observation

aggregates in chains

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32291]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32291]	galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32291]	glutamate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32291]	nitrate ChEBI	+	reduction
[Ref.: #32291]	ribose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32291]	xylose ChEBI	+	carbon source

	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32291]	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32291]	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
[Ref.: #32291]	urease	+	3.5.1.5

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

[Ref.: #32291]	Sample type/isolated from	Skin of porpoise
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Mammals	#Aquatic mammal
#Host Body-Site	#Organ	#Skin, Nail, Hair

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AM158982 (>99% sequence identity) for Brucellaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	8164
Soil Samples	8416
Animal Samples	19304
Plant Samples	4266
Total Samples	40150

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.: #32291]	Brucella cetaceae partial 16S rRNA gene, strain NCTC 12891	AM158982	1430	GenBank	120577 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Brucella ceti B1/94	520457.4	wgs	PATRIC	520457 tax ID	*

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: Brucella ceti B1/94 PATRIC: 520457.4
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	100	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Brucella ceti B1/94 PATRIC: 520457.4
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	no	98.632	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	97.18	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	90.599	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	95.677	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	87.799	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	89.547	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	94.042	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	61.007	no
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	86.302	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	89.541	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

BCCN 94-74, NCTC 12891

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Draft Genome Sequences of Brucella suis Biovar 4 Strain NCTC 10385, Brucella ceti Strain NCTC 12891T, Brucella inopinata Strain CAMP 6436T, and Brucella neotomae Strain ATCC 23459T.	Wahab T, Ferrari S, Lindberg M, Backman S, Kaden R	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00783-14	2014	*
Phylogeny	Brucella ceti sp. nov. and Brucella pinnipedialis sp. nov. for Brucella strains with cetaceans and seals as their preferred hosts.	Foster G, Osterman BS, Godfroid J, Jacques I, Cloeckaert A	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0	2007	*

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 )

#32291

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 #28531 (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 )

#28531

IJSEM 2688 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65269-0 , PubMed 17978241 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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