Magnetospirillum bellicum (DSM 21662, ATCC BAA-1730, VDY)

Name: Magnetospirillum bellicum (DSM 21662, ATCC BAA-1730, VDY)
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BacDive ID 13945

Type strain

Strain Designation VDY

Culture col. no. DSM 21662 ATCC BAA-1730 VDY

NCBI tax ID(s) 425942

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- J. D. Coates, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA; VDY <- J. C. Thrash {2006}

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Magnetospirillum bellicum VDY is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from cathodic chamber of perchlorate reducing enrichment.

anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 400757

DSM 21662

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:21:17

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Rhodospirillales

Family Rhodospirillaceae

Genus Magnetospirillum

Species Magnetospirillum bellicum

Full scientific name Magnetospirillum bellicum corrig. Thrash et al. 2021

Synonyms (1)

Magnetospirillum bellicus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15873	FWM MEDIUM (PERCHLORATE) (DSMZ Medium 503b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: FWM MEDIUM (PERCHLORATE) (DSMZ Medium 503b) Composition: Na2CO3 1.4985 g/l Na-acetate 1.35864 g/l Sodium perchlorate 1.21878 g/l KCl 0.499501 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.399601 g/l NH4Cl 0.24975 g/l KH2PO4 0.1998 g/l Na2SO4 0.14985 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02997 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.014985 g/l NaCl 0.00999001 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.00499501 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0017982 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0017982 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.000999001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.000999001 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0002997 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0001998 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 9.99001e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 9.99001e-05 g/l H3BO3 9.99001e-05 g/l Pyridoxine hydrochloride 9.99001e-05 g/l Nicotinic acid 4.995e-05 g/l Riboflavin 4.995e-05 g/l Calcium D-(+)-pantothenate 4.995e-05 g/l (DL)-alpha-Lipoic acid 4.995e-05 g/l p-Aminobenzoic acid 4.995e-05 g/l Thiamine HCl 4.995e-05 g/l Biotin 1.998e-05 g/l Folic acid 1.998e-05 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 3.996e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 2.997e-06 g/l Vitamin B12 9.99001e-07 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
15873	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

15873

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Engineered	#Other

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15873	cathodic chamber of perchlorate reducing enrichment	Strawberry Creek, University of Berkeley, California	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence EF405824 (>99% sequence identity) for Magnetospirillum bellicus subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	9
Soil Samples	2
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	11

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	Magnetospirillum bellicum VDY	complete	2546825520	425942	55.77

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15873	Magnetospirillum bellicus strain VDY 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	EF405824	1460		425942

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
15873	64.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Magnetospirillum bellicus sp. nov., a novel dissimilatory perchlorate-reducing alphaproteobacterium isolated from a bioelectrical reactor.	Thrash JC, Ahmadi S, Torok T, Coates JD	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/AEM.00015-10	2010

References

#15873	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21662
#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 )
#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 .
#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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Magnetospirillum bellicum (DSM 21662, ATCC BAA-1730, VDY)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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