Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens (BCRC 80463, JCM 18557)

Name: Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens (BCRC 80463, JCM 18557)
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BacDive ID 162264

Type strain

Culture col. no. BCRC 80463 JCM 18557

NCBI tax ID(s) 1227946

Special Collections JCM

History JCM <-- C.-C. Young CC-AMZ-304.

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Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens JCM 18557 is a bacterium that has a yellow pigmentation and was isolated from Coastal surface seawater near Taichung harbour.

pigmented 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 27744

BCRC 80463,JCM 18557

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:44:53

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Aquibacter

Species Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens

Full scientific name Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens Hameed et al. 2014

Morphology

Pigmentation

@ref	Production	Color	Name
67770		yellow	zeaxanthin

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

67770

Observationquinones: MK-6

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
67770	27547 ChEBI	zeaxanthin

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
67770	Coastal surface seawater near Taichung harbour	Taiwan, Province of China	TWN	Asia

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JX235670 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	144
Soil Samples	20
Animal Samples	13
Plant Samples	0
Total Samples	177

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens strain CC-AMZ-304 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JX235670	1481		1227946

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	36	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens gen. nov., sp. nov., a zeaxanthin-producing bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from surface seawater, and emended descriptions of the genera Aestuariibaculum and Gaetbulibacter.	Hameed A, Shahina M, Lin SY, Lai WA, Hsu YH, Liu YC, Young CC	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.052621-0	2013

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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Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens (BCRC 80463, JCM 18557)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

Metabolite production

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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