Name: Amphibacillus tropicus Z-7792
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 1405

Type strain:

Species: Amphibacillus tropicus

Strain Designation: Z-7792

Culture col. no.: DSM 13870

Strain history: <- T. N. Zhilina; Z-7792

NCBI tax ID(s): 173040 (species)

SI-ID 308724

DSM 13870

Section

Amphibacillus tropicus Z-7792 is an aerobe, mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from sediment.

aerobe
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacillota*
	Class	*Bacilli*
	Order	*Caryophanales*
	Family	*Bacillaceae*
	Genus	*Amphibacillus*
	Species	**Amphibacillus tropicus**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Amphibacillus tropicus Zhilina et al. 2002

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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Culture medium

ALCALIPHILIC AMPHIBACILLUS STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 931)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

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	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #5183]			growth	30-35 °C
[Ref.: #5183]			growth	37 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #5183]	Oxygen tolerance	aerobe
[Ref.: #5183]	Oxygen tolerance	anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #5183]	Sample type/isolated from	sediment
[Ref.: #5183]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Lake Magadi
[Ref.: #5183]	Country	Kenya
[Ref.: #5183]	Country ISO 3 Code	KEN
[Ref.: #5183]	Continent	Africa
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

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Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #5183]	Amphibacillus tropicus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF418602	1426	ENA	173040 tax ID
[Ref.: #20218]	Amphibacillus tropicus isolate At15 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence; 16S-23S internal transcribed spacer, complete sequence; and 23S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	EU723602	480	ENA	173040 tax ID	*

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GC-content

39.2 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 13870

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SI-ID 308724

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Alkalilactibacillus ikkensis, gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel enzyme-producing bacterium from a cold and alkaline environment in Greenland.	Schmidt M, Prieme A, Johansen A, Stougaard P	Extremophiles	10.1007/s00792-012-0430-7	2012	*
Phylogeny	Amphibacillus jilinensis sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic, alkaliphilic bacillus from a soda lake.	Wu XY, Zheng G, Zhang WW, Xu XW, Wu M, Zhu XF	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.018259-0	2009	*
Phylogeny	[Amphibacillus fermentum sp. nov., Amphibacillus tropicus sp. nov.--new alkaliphilic, facultatively anaerobic, saccharolytic Bacilli from Lake Magadi].	Zhilina TN, Garnova ES, Turova TP, Kostrikina NA, Zavarzin GA	Mikrobiologiia		2001	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 13870

#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 )

#20218

Verslyppe, B., De Smet, W., De Baets, B., De Vos, P., Dawyndt P.: StrainInfo introduces electronic passports for microorganisms.. Syst Appl Microbiol. 37: 42 - 50 2014 ( DOI 10.1016/j.syapm.2013.11.002 , PubMed 24321274 )

#71056

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID308724.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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