Name: Aquimarina megaterium XH134
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 24027

Type strain:

Species: Aquimarina megaterium

Strain Designation: XH134

Culture col. no.: DSM 25596, CGMCC 1.12186, JCM 18215

Strain history: X.-H. Zhang XH134.

NCBI tax ID(s): 1443666 (species)

SI-ID 401389

DSM 25596

Section

Aquimarina megaterium XH134 is a mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from surface seawater.

mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

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	*Aquimarina*
	Species	**Aquimarina megaterium**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Aquimarina megaterium Yu et al. 2014

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Incubation period

3-7 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #20575]			growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	28 °C

[Ref.: #20575]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Observation

quinones: MK-6

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

[Ref.: #20575]	Sample type/isolated from	surface seawater
[Ref.: #20575]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	South Pacific Gyre at station U1371 (45° 58' S 163° 11' W)
[Ref.: #20575]	Geographic location	-45.9667°/-163.1830°

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Surface seawater in the South Pacific Gyre (45° 58' S 163° 11' W)
[Ref.: #67770]	Geographic location	-45.9667°/-163.1830°
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Surface water

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Global distribution of 16S sequence KC476292 (>99% sequence identity) for Aquimarina megaterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	1141
Soil Samples	37
Animal Samples	41
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	1224

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

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Biosafety level

Risk group (German classification)
According to TRBA 466

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.: #20575]	Aquimarina megaterium XH134 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	KC476292	1485	ENA	1296416 tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Aquimarina sp. U1371-101227-XH134 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JQ082192	1423	ENA	1171531 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #67770]	Aquimarina megaterium XH134	GCA_000520975	contig	GenBank	1296416 tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Aquimarina megaterium XH134	2585427830	draft	JGI IMG/M	1296416 tax ID	*

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GC-content

32.4 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 25596, CGMCC 1.12186, JCM 18215

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SI-ID 401389

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Aquimarina pacifica sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Zhang Z, Yu T, Xu T, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.062695-0	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina atlantica sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Atlantic Ocean.	Li G, Lai Q, Sun F, Liu X, Xie Y, Du Y, Li G, Shao Z	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-014-0196-2	2014	*
Phylogeny	Aquimarina megaterium sp. nov., isolated from seawater.	Yu T, Zhang Z, Fan X, Shi X, Zhang XH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.055517-0	2013	*

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 )

#20575

Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25596

#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) .

#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 .

#88001

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-ID401389.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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