Name: Rickettsia gravesii VR-1664
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 140720

Type strain:

Species: Rickettsia gravesii

Strain Designation: VR-1664, RGBWI-1, BWI-1

Culture col. no.: CSUR R172

NCBI tax ID(s): 354585 (species)

Rickettsia gravesii VR-1664 is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from an Amblyomma triguttatum tick from Barrow Island.

Gram-negative
rod-shaped
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Rickettsiales*
	Family	*Rickettsiaceae*
	Genus	*Rickettsia*
	Species	**Rickettsia gravesii**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Rickettsia gravesii Abdad et al. 2017

	Synonym	"Candidatus* Rickettsia gravesii"*
	Synonym	"Rickettsia* conorii subsp. gravesii"*

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #43498]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #43498]	Cell length	1.4 µm

[Ref.: #43498]	Cell width	0.4 µm

[Ref.: #43498]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

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

[Ref.: #43498]	Sample type/isolated from	an Amblyomma triguttatum tick from Barrow Island
[Ref.: #43498]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Barrow Island
[Ref.: #43498]	Country	Australia
[Ref.: #43498]	Country ISO 3 Code	AUS
[Ref.: #43498]	Continent	Australia and Oceania
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Isolation sources categories

#Host

#Arthropoda

#Tick

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Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ269434 (>99% sequence identity) for Rickettsia from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1126
Soil Samples	494
Animal Samples	2180
Plant Samples	561
Total Samples	4361

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.: #43498]	16S rRNA genome sequence	DQ269434		GenBank

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia gravesii BWI-1	GCA_000485845	contig	GenBank	1397702 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Rickettsia gravesii BWI-1	2585427707	draft	JGI IMG/M	1397702 tax ID	*

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GC-content

32.3 mol%

genome sequence analysis

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

CSUR R172

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rickettsia gravesii sp. nov.: a novel spotted fever group rickettsia in Western Australian Amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum ticks.	Abdad MY, Abdallah RA, Karkouri KE, Beye M, Stenos J, Owen H, Unsworth N, Robertson I, Blacksell SD, Nguyen TT, Nappez C, Raoult D, Fenwick S, Fournier PE	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.001865	2017	*
Genetics	Genome Sequence of Rickettsia gravesii, Isolated from Western Australian Ticks.	Sentausa E, Abdad MY, Robert C, Stenos J, Raoult D, Fournier PE	Genome Announc	10.1128/genomeA.00975-13	2013	*
Transcriptome	High prevalence of Rickettsia gravesii sp. nov. in Amblyomma triguttatum collected from feral pigs.	Li AY, Adams PJ, Abdad MY, Fenwick SG	Vet Microbiol	10.1016/j.vetmic.2010.04.018	2010	*

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 )

#43498

Mohammad Y. Abdad, Rita Abou Abdallah, Khalid El Karkouri, Mamadou Beye, John Stenos, Helen Owen, Nathan Unsworth, Ian Robertson, Stuart D. Blacksell, Thi-Tien Nguyen, Claude Nappez, Didier Raoult, Stan Fenwick, Pierre-Edouard Fournier: Rickettsia gravesii sp. nov.: a novel spotted fever group rickettsia in Western Australian Amblyomma triguttatum triguttatum ticks. IJSEM 67: 3156 - 3161 2017 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.001865 , PubMed 28857025 )

#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 .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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