Borrelia maritima (CA690, ATCC TSD-160, DSM 107169)

Name: Borrelia maritima (CA690, ATCC TSD-160, DSM 107169)
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BacDive ID 167521

Type strain

Strain Designation CA690, TSD-160

Culture col. no. CA690 ATCC TSD-160 DSM 107169 TSD-160

NCBI tax ID(s) 2761123

Special Collections Literature strains DSMZ

History <- C. Hizo-Teufel, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority NRZ Borrelia <- N. Fedorova, University of California, Berkeley, USA; CA690

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Borrelia maritima CA690 is a microaerophile, Gram-positive, motile bacterium that was isolated from unfed I. spinipalpis nymph.

Gram-positive motile helical-shaped microaerophile genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 402658

ATCC TSD-160,DSM 107169

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:36

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Spirochaetota

Class Spirochaetia

Order Spirochaetales

Family Borreliaceae

Genus Borrelia

Species Borrelia maritima

Full scientific name Borrelia maritima Margos et al. 2020

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility	Confidence
69528	positive	16-18 µm	0.2 µm	helical-shaped
125439	negative					100

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
69528	BSK
69528	MKP
124905	BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BSK-MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 403) Composition: Bovine serum albumin 35.0245 g/l Gelatine 9.79706 g/l HEPES buffer 4.19874 g/l Proteose peptone no. 2 3.49895 g/l Glucose 2.09937 g/l Proteose yeastolate 0.69979 g/l Tryptone peptone 0.69979 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.559832 g/l Sodium citrate 0.489853 g/l N-Acetylglucosamine 0.279916 g/l MgCl2 x 6 H2O 0.209937 g/l L-Glutamine 0.069979 g/l Double distilled water CMRL 1066 Rabbit serum

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
69528	positive	growth	33-34
124905	positive	growth	33

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	97.5
69528	microaerophile

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.9
125438		94.864

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Enrichment culture	Enrichment culture composition	Isolation date
69528	unfed I. spinipalpis nymph	Alameda County, Californien	USA	USA	North America	Barbour-Stoenner-Kelly-H Medium	supplemented with heat-inactivated rabbit serum and fetal-bovine serum	2009-01-01
124905	tick Ixodes spinipalpis	California	USA	USA	North America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence MN095518 (>99% sequence identity) for Borreliella from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	378
Soil Samples	126
Animal Samples	1133
Plant Samples	40
Total Samples	1677

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM893184v1 assembly for Borrelia maritima CA690	complete	GCA_008931845	1476873.3	2873629004	2761123	95.38

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20215	Borrelia maritima 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	MN095518	1542		2761123

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
69528	27	genome sequence analysis

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Borrelia maritima CA690
NCBI: GCA_008931845

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	63.60	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	100.00	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	97.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Borrelia maritima CA690
NCBI: GCA_008931845.1

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	80.59	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	81.94	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	94.39	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	94.86	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.75	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	50.02	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Borrelia maritima sp. nov., a novel species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, occupying a basal position to North American species.	Margos G, Fedorova N, Becker NS, Kleinjan JE, Marosevic D, Krebs S, Hui L, Fingerle V, Lane RS	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.003833	2020

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) .
#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 .
#69528	Gabriele Margos, Natalia Fedorova, Noémie S. Becker, Joyce E. Kleinjan, Durdica Marosevic, Stefan Krebs, Lucia Hui, Volker Fingerle and Robert S. Lane: Borrelia maritima sp. nov., a novel species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, occupying a basal position to North American species. IJSEM 70: 2019 ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.003833 )
#124905	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 107169
#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 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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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Borrelia maritima (CA690, ATCC TSD-160, DSM 107169)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_008931845

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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