Blastochloris gulmargensis (DSM 19786, JCM 14795, JA248)

Name: Blastochloris gulmargensis (DSM 19786, JCM 14795, JA248)
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BacDive ID 6163

Type strain

Strain Designation JA248

Culture col. no. DSM 19786 JCM 14795 JA248

NCBI tax ID(s) 432296

Special Collections DSMZ JCM

History <- C. Sasikala, Centre Environment, Inst. Sci. and Technol., J. N. T. Univ., Hyderabad, India; JA248 <- V. Venkata Ramana

Blastochloris gulmargensis JA248 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from yellow–green epilithic biofilm in a cold sulfur spring.

anaerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

DSM 19786 JCM 14795 JA248

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:08

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Alphaproteobacteria

Order Hyphomicrobiales

Family Blastochloridaceae

Genus Blastochloris

Species Blastochloris gulmargensis

Full scientific name Blastochloris gulmargensis Venkata Ramana et al. 2011

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

8316

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring
#Environmental	#Biofilm	-
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
8316	yellow–green epilithic biofilm in a cold sulfur spring	Gulmarg (34.05° N 74.38° E)	India	IND	Asia	34.05	74.38 34.05/74.38

Taxonmaps

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AM502287 (>99% sequence identity) for Blastochloris gulmargensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	18
Soil Samples	31
Animal Samples	3
Plant Samples	5
Total Samples	57

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
8316	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
8316	Blastochloris gulmargensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain JA248T	AM502287	1420		432296

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
8316	63.8	high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Blastochloris gulmargensis sp. nov., isolated from an epilithic phototrophic biofilm.	Venkata Ramana V, Kapoor S, Shobha E, Ramprasad EVV, Sasikala C, Ramana CV	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.025965-0	2010

References

#8316	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 19786
#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 )
#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 .

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Blastochloris gulmargensis (DSM 19786, JCM 14795, JA248)

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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