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"Allochromatium palmeri" (DSM 15591, BH-2)

BacDive ID 23845

Type strain

Strain Designation BH-2

Culture col. no. DSM 15591 BH-2

NCBI tax ID(s) 231048

Special Collections DSMZ

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"Allochromatium palmeri" BH-2 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from water sample.

anaerobe mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404523

DSM 15591

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:44

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Chromatiaceae

Genus Allochromatium

Species "Allochromatium palmeri"

Full scientific name Allochromatium palmeri Kyndt and Meyer 2020

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	96.494

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20279	PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (modified 1988, for purple sulfur bacteria) (DSMZ Medium 28)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PFENNIG'S MEDIUM I (DSMZ Medium 28; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 20.0 g/l NaHCO3 1.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.592592 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.500001 g/l Ammonium chloride 0.349999 g/l KCl 0.349999 g/l KH2PO4 0.349999 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.25 g/l Pyruvic acid sodium salt 0.25 g/l Dextrose 0.25 g/l Na2-EDTA 0.003 g/l Resazurin 0.00225 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.0011 g/l Vitamin B12 0.001 g/l H3BO3 0.0003 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.00019 g/l MnCl2 x 2 H2O 5e-05 g/l ZnCl2 4.2e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.4e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 1.8e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
20279	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

20279

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		93.9

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
20279	water sample	South Andros Island, at 17.8m depth	Bahamas	BHS	Middle and South America

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ563291 (>99% sequence identity) for Allochromatium palmeri subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	123
Soil Samples	30
Animal Samples	12
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	168

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
66792	ASM972072v1 assembly for Allochromatium palmeri DSM 15591	contig	GCA_009720725	231048.4	2890683868	231048	39.72

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20279	Allochromatium palmeri partial 16S rRNA gene	AJ563291	1394		231048

GC content

20279

GC-content (mol%)65.7

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Allochromatium palmeri DSM 15591
NCBI: GCA_009720725

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	93.90	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	57.40	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	77.10	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	aerobe	75.00	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Allochromatium palmeri strain DSM 15591
PATRIC: 231048.4

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	96.49	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	yes	78.18	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	88.46	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	no	82.14	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	88.34	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	79.14	no

Literature

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 )
#20279	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15591
#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 .
#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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