Amphibacillus tropicus (DSM 13870, Z-7792)

Name: Amphibacillus tropicus (DSM 13870, Z-7792)
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BacDive ID 1405

Type strain

Strain Designation Z-7792

Culture col. no. DSM 13870 Z-7792

NCBI tax ID(s) 173040

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- T. N. Zhilina; Z-7792

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

aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 308724

DSM 13870

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:15

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Amphibacillus

Species Amphibacillus tropicus

Full scientific name Amphibacillus tropicus Zhilina et al. 2002

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5183	CASO AGAR (MERCK 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CASO AGAR (Merck 105458) (DSMZ Medium 220) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casein peptone 15.0 g/l NaCl 5.0 g/l Soy peptone 5.0 g/l Distilled water
5183	ALCALIPHILIC AMPHIBACILLUS STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 931)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: ALCALIPHILIC AMPHIBACILLUS STRAINS MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 931) Composition: Na2CO3 63.6 g/l NaHCO3 50.4 g/l Sucrose 5.0 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.7 g/l NH4Cl 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.2 g/l KCl 0.2 g/l KH2PO4 0.2 g/l MgCl2 0.1 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.03 g/l Nitrilotriacetic acid 0.015 g/l NaCl 0.01 g/l MnSO4 x H2O 0.005 g/l ZnSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l CoSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0018 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.001 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.001 g/l Resazurin 0.001 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0003 g/l AlK(SO4)2 x 12 H2O 0.0002 g/l H3BO3 0.0001 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 0.0001 g/l CuSO4 x 5 H2O 0.0001 g/l Na2WO4 x 2 H2O 4e-06 g/l Na2SeO3 x 5 H2O 3e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5183	positive	growth	30-35
5183	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance
5183	aerobe
5183	anaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5183	sediment	Lake Magadi	Kenya	KEN	Africa

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5183	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
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		173040
5183	Amphibacillus tropicus 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AF418602	1426		173040

GC content

5183

GC-content (mol%)39.2

Genome-based predictions

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

#5183	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 )
#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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Amphibacillus tropicus (DSM 13870, Z-7792)

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

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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