Name: Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens JCM 18557
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 162264

Type strain:

Species: Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens

Culture col. no.: JCM 18557, BCRC 80463

Strain history: C.-C. Young CC-AMZ-304.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1227946 (species)

Section

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

pigmented
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Bacteroidota*
	Class	*Flavobacteriia*
	Order	*Flavobacteriales*
	Family	*Flavobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Aquibacter*
	Species	**Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens Hameed et al. 2014

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #67770]	Pigment production	yes
[Ref.: #67770]	Pigmentation color	yellow
[Ref.: #67770]	Pigment name	zeaxanthin

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	30 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Observation

quinones: MK-6

	Metabolite production	Metabolite	Production
[Ref.: #67770]		zeaxanthin ChEBI	yes

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

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Coastal surface seawater near Taichung harbour
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Taiwan
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	TWN
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Asia
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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
Total Samples	177

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.: #67770]	Aquibacter zeaxanthinifaciens strain CC-AMZ-304 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JX235670	1481	ENA	1227946 tax ID

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GC-content

36 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

JCM 18557, BCRC 80463

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

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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 .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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