Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 18395, 2-9-3)

Name: Virgibacillus sp. (DSM 18395, 2-9-3)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 139898

Type strain

Strain Designation 2-9-3

Culture col. no. DSM 18395 2-9-3

NCBI tax ID(s) 1872700

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2-9-3 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from brine inclusion of salt crystal.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 401524

DSM 18395

@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
42506	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514) Composition: NaCl 19.45 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
42506	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Condition	#Saline
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
42506	brine inclusion of salt crystal	New Mexico	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AF166093 (>99% sequence identity) for Virgibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	31
Soil Samples	22
Animal Samples	63
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	121

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
42506	Bacillus permians 16S ribosomal RNA gene, complete sequence	AF166093	1560		109971

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 )
#42506	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18395
#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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