Rhodobacter megalophilus (DSM 18937, JCM 14598, KCTC 5602)

Name: Rhodobacter megalophilus (DSM 18937, JCM 14598, KCTC 5602)
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BacDive ID 13824

Type strain

Strain Designation JA194

Culture col. no. DSM 18937 JCM 14598 KCTC 5602 JA194 UCCCB23

NCBI tax ID(s) 418630

Special Collections DSMZ JCM KCTC Literature strains UCCCB

History <- C. Sasikala, Centre Environment, Inst. Sci. and Technol., J. N. T. Univ., Hyderabad, India; JA194 <- K. Arunasri Ch. Sasikala JA194. Arunasri, K. JNT University

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Rhodobacter megalophilus JA194 is an anaerobe, Gram-negative, ovoid-shaped bacterium that was isolated from soil sample collected from Suraj tal near Sarchu .

Gram-negative ovoid-shaped anaerobe genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 290253

JCM 14598

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodobacterales

Family Paracoccaceae

Genus Rhodobacter

Species Rhodobacter megalophilus

Full scientific name Rhodobacter megalophilus Arunasri et al. 2008

Synonyms (2)

Luteovulum sphaeroides subsp. megalophilum
"Luteovulum sphaeroides subsp. megalophilum"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
32531	negative	1.5-2 µm	1.2-1.5 µm	ovoid-shaped
125438	negative				98.482
125439	negative				98.3

Pigmentation

32531

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
32531	positive	growth	05-40
32531	positive	optimum	30-35
67770	positive	growth	30
67772	positive	minimum	5
67772	positive	optimum	30
67772	positive	maximum	40

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
7795	anaerobe
32531	aerobe
125439	aerobe	93.1

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
32531
125439		95.9

Observation

32531

Observationaggregates in chains

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32531	30089 ChEBI	acetate	+	carbon source
32531	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
32531	16947 ChEBI	citrate	+	carbon source
32531	16236 ChEBI	ethanol	+	carbon source
32531	15740 ChEBI	formate	+	carbon source
32531	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
32531	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
32531	17754 ChEBI	glycerol	+	carbon source
32531	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
32531	17272 ChEBI	propionate	+	carbon source
32531	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
32531	31011 ChEBI	valerate	+	carbon source

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
7795	soil sample collected from Suraj tal near Sarchu (34° 17' N 77° 58' E, 11 975 feet above sea level)		Indian Himalayas, between Jammu and Kashmir	India	IND	Asia
67770	Soil of the Indian Himalaya
67772	Soil of the Indian Himalaya	2006	Ladakh	India	IND	Asia	34.2833	77.9167 34.2833/77.9167

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AM421024 (>99% sequence identity) for Luteovulum from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	10335
Soil Samples	1540
Animal Samples	4862
Plant Samples	492
Total Samples	17229

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7795	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
67772	1

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
67772	IMG-taxon 2681813553 annotated assembly for [Luteovulum] sphaeroides subsp. megalophilum DSM 18937	scaffold	GCA_900188265	418630.3	2681813553	418630	70.2

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7795	Rhodobacter aflagellatum partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain JA194T	AM421024	1406		418630

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
7795	66.67	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
32531	66.67

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: [Luteovulum] sphaeroides subsp. megalophilum DSM 18937
NCBI: GCA_900188265

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	95.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	58.90	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.30	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	93.10	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Rhodobacter megalophilus strain DSM 18937
PATRIC: 418630.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.48	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	72.95	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	80.91	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	65.02	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	98.09	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	70.81	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Seasonal Variations of the Nebraska Salt Marsh Microbiome: Environmental Impact, Antibiotic Resistance, and Unique Species.	Stock EK, Rota K, Dunn B, Vasquez M, Hernandez-Velazquez D, Lespes A, Bosmans S, Smith JC, Kyndt JA.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms13102369	2025
Genetics	Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria.	Hordt A, Lopez MG, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Schleuning M, Weinhold LM, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Kyrpides NC, Woyke T, Goker M.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468	2020
Phylogeny	Rhodobacter megalophilus sp. nov., a phototroph from the Indian Himalayas possessing a wide temperature range for growth.	Arunasri K, Venkata Ramana V, Sproer C, Sasikala Ch, Ramana ChV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65642-0	2008

References

#7795	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18937
#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 )
#28749	IJSEM 1792 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65642-0 , PubMed 18676458 )
#32531	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 #28749
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#67772	The University of Coimbra Bacteria Culture Collection (UCCCB) ; Curators of the UCCCB;
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Rhodobacter megalophilus (DSM 18937, JCM 14598, KCTC 5602)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_900188265

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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