Name: Blastochloris gulmargensis JA248
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 6163

Type strain:

Species: Blastochloris gulmargensis

Strain Designation: JA248

Culture col. no.: DSM 19786, JCM 14795

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

NCBI tax ID(s): 432296 (species)

Section

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

anaerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

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

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Alphaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Hyphomicrobiales*
	Family	*Blastochloridaceae*
	Genus	*Blastochloris*
	Species	**Blastochloris gulmargensis**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Blastochloris gulmargensis Venkata Ramana et al. 2011

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

anaerobe

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

[Ref.: #8316]	Sample type/isolated from	yellow–green epilithic biofilm in a cold sulfur spring
[Ref.: #8316]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Gulmarg (34.05° N 74.38° E)
[Ref.: #8316]	Country	India
[Ref.: #8316]	Country ISO 3 Code	IND
[Ref.: #8316]	Continent	Asia
[Ref.: #8316]	Geographic location	34.0500°/74.3800°
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Spring
#Environmental	#Biofilm	-
#Condition	#Sulfuric	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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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

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.: #8316]	Blastochloris gulmargensis partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain JA248T	AM502287	1420	ENA	432296 tax ID

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GC-content

63.8 mol%

high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 19786, JCM 14795

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

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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 .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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