Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus (DSM 21489, MWH-NZ8W4)

Name: Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus (DSM 21489, MWH-NZ8W4)
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BacDive ID 2075

Type strain

Strain Designation MWH-NZ8W4

Culture col. no. DSM 21489 MWH-NZ8W4

NCBI tax ID(s) 351345

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- M. W. Hahn, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Inst. Limnology; MWH-NZ8W4

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Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus MWH-NZ8W4 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from lake water.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398773

DSM 21489

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:14

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Burkholderiaceae

Genus Polynucleobacter

Species Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus

Full scientific name Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus Hahn et al. 2010

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus** (7)	Type strain
2076	P. cosmopolitanus MWH-MoIso2, DSM 21490, CIP 109840, LMG 25212 (type strain)
2073	P. cosmopolitanus MwH-TaW3, DSM 21487
2074	P. cosmopolitanus MWH-NZ8W13, DSM 21488
2077	P. cosmopolitanus MWH-MoNR1, DSM 21491
2078	P. cosmopolitanus MWH-CaK1, DSM 21494
161836	P. cosmopolitanus JCM 16612
161847	P. cosmopolitanus JCM 16656

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
15740	R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casamino acids 0.5 g/l Starch 0.5 g/l Glucose 0.5 g/l Proteose peptone 0.5 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.3 g/l Na-pyruvate 0.3 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.05 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
15740	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
15740	lake water	South Island, Aviemore	New Zealand	NZL	Australia and Oceania

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
15740	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
15740	Polynucleobacter cosmopolitanus partial 16S rRNA gene and ITS1, strain MWH-NZ8W4	AM110085	2001		351345

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#15740	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 21489
#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 )
#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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