Haloferax gibbonsii (DSM 112399, LR2-5)

Name: Haloferax gibbonsii (DSM 112399, LR2-5)
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BacDive ID 160071

Type strain

Strain Designation LR2-5

Culture col. no. DSM 112399 LR2-5

NCBI tax ID(s) 35746

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Haloferax gibbonsii LR2-5 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Salt lake water sample containing white sediment.

mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 396614

DSM 112399

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:24

Domain Methanobacteriati

Phylum Methanobacteriota

Class Halobacteria

Order Halobacteriales

Family Haloferacaceae

Genus Haloferax

Species Haloferax gibbonsii

Full scientific name Haloferax gibbonsii Juez et al. 1986

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Haloferax gibbonsii** (1)	Type strain
5931	H. gibbonsii Ma 2.38, DSM 4427, ATCC 33959, NCMB 2188, ... (type strain)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
66975	HALOFERAX GIBBONSII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1748)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALOFERAX GIBBONSII MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 1748) Composition: NaCl 187.702 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 27.3732 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 23.4627 g/l Agar 20.0 g/l KCl 5.47462 g/l Peptone 5.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l CaCl2 0.436151 g/l Tap water Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
66975	positive	growth	37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
66975	Salt lake water sample (25% salt) containing white sediment	Lake Retba	Senegal	SEN	Africa	14.8372	-17.2486 14.8372/-17.2486

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence MG462740 (>99% sequence identity) for Haloferax from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7
Soil Samples	1
Animal Samples
Plant Samples
Total Samples	8

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
66975	1	Risk group (German classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM1496974v1 assembly for Haloferax gibbonsii LR2-5	complete	GCA_014969745	35746.12	35746	97.11

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
66975	Haloferax sp. strain LR2-5 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MG462740	1443		2253

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Haloferax gibbonsii LR2-5
NCBI: GCA_014969745.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	75.65	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	80.71	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	76.31	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	82.87	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	82.18	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	85.00	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Pathogenicity	Cellular and Genomic Properties of Haloferax gibbonsii LR2-5, the Host of Euryarchaeal Virus HFTV1.	Tittes C, Schwarzer S, Pfeiffer F, Dyall-Smith M, Rodriguez-Franco M, Oksanen HM, Quax TEF	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.625599	2021
Genetics	The Viral Susceptibility of the Haloferax Species.	Aguirre Sourrouille Z, Schwarzer S, Lequime S, Oksanen HM, Quax TEF	Viruses	10.3390/v14061344	2022

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 )
#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) .
#66975	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 112399
#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 .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#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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Haloferax gibbonsii (DSM 112399, LR2-5)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_014969745

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

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