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Blastococcus sp. (JCM 16854)

Name: Blastococcus sp. (JCM 16854)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 161883

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 16854

NCBI tax ID(s) 1873459

Special Collections JCM

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JCM 16854 is a psychrophilic prokaryote that was isolated from Mud.

psychrophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 393269

JCM 16854

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 10:08:51

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Geodermatophilales

Family Geodermatophilaceae

Genus Blastococcus

Full scientific name Blastococcus Ahrens and Moll 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
67770	positive	growth	20	psychrophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Mud	Svalbard	Norway	NOR	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB540018 (>99% sequence identity) for Blastococcus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	249
Soil Samples	677
Animal Samples	701
Plant Samples	194
Total Samples	1821

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Blastococcus sp. NP3-12 gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence	AB540018	1354		708107

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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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