Name: Haloferax sp. BB8
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 23044

Type strain:

Species: Haloferax sp.

Strain Designation: BB8

Culture col. no.: DSM 18286, JCM 13920

Strain history: M. I. Enache BB8.

NCBI tax ID(s): 2253 (species)

SI-ID 400407

DSM 18286

Other strains from Haloferax sp.

H. sp. LaPaz, DSM 6501
H. sp. DSM 18285, JCM 13921, BR 2
H. sp. GR2, DSM 18287, JCM 13922
H. sp. BV 2, DSM 18309, JCM 13923
H. sp. 12, DSM 4428
H. sp. JCM 34169
H. sp. JCM 34170
H. sp. JCM 34171

Section

Haloferax sp. BB8 is a mesophilic archaeon that was isolated from Lake Shepard Bath .

mesophilic
16S sequence
Archaea

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Archaea"
	Phylum	*Methanobacteriota*
	Class	*Halobacteria*
	Order	*Haloferacales*
	Family	*Haloferacaceae*
	Genus	*Haloferax*
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Haloferax Torreblanca et al. 1986

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

[Ref.: #18840]

Culture medium

HALOBACTERIA MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 372)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

[Ref.: #18840]

Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #18840]			growth	37 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	37 °C

[Ref.: #18840]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

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

[Ref.: #18840]	Sample type/isolated from	Lake Shepard Bath (Lacul Baia Baciului)
[Ref.: #18840]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	near Slanic Prahova
[Ref.: #18840]	Country	Romania
[Ref.: #18840]	Country ISO 3 Code	ROU
[Ref.: #18840]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Saline lake, Spepherd Bath
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Slanic, Prahova
[Ref.: #67770]	Country	Romania
[Ref.: #67770]	Country ISO 3 Code	ROU
[Ref.: #67770]	Continent	Europe
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental

#Aquatic

#Lake (large)

What are isolation sources categories?

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.: #18840]	Haloferax opilio gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: BB8	AB258307	1448	ENA	381854 tax ID

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GC-content

63.8 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

[Ref.: #18840]

Culture collection no.

DSM 18286, JCM 13920

[Ref.: #87284]

SI-ID 400407

References

#18840

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18286

#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;

#87284

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID400407.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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