Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 16820, BH187)

Name: Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 16820, BH187)
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BacDive ID 139897

Type strain

Strain Designation BH187

Culture col. no. DSM 16820 BH187

NCBI tax ID(s) 1872700

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BH187 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from soil, salt lake.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 407618

DSM 16820

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:03:27

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Virgibacillus

Full scientific name Virgibacillus Heyndrickx et al. 1998

Synonyms (2)

Paracerasibacillus
Salibacillus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
42505	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 80.0 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
42505	positive	growth	30	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Condition	#Saline	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Non-marine Saline and Alkaline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
42505	soil, salt lake	Yunnan Province	China	CHN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY762979 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	41
Soil Samples	257
Animal Samples	82
Plant Samples	30
Total Samples	410

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42505	Virgibacillus sp. BH187 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY762979	1518		297173

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#42505	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16820
#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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