Bacillus sp. (DSM 17550, CNJ 912)

Name: Bacillus sp. (DSM 17550, CNJ 912)
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BacDive ID 940

Type strain

Strain Designation CNJ 912

Culture col. no. DSM 17550 CNJ 912

NCBI tax ID(s) 83428

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- P. Jensen, Scripps Inst. Oceanography, Univ. California, La Jolla, USA <- E. Gontang; CNJ 912

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CNJ 912 is a mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from marine sediment.

mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 399981

DSM 17550

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:17:59

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Bacillus

Full scientific name Bacillus Cohn 1872 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (4)

Niallia
"Quasibacillus"
Weizmannia
"Maribacillus"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6966	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l MnSO4 10.0 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
6966	positive	growth	28	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
6966	marine sediment	7°30'N 134°30'E, intertidal zone to depths of 500 m	Palau	PLW	Australia and Oceania	7.5	134.5 7.5/134.5

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ448765 (>99% sequence identity) for Pontibacillus from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	14
Soil Samples	4
Animal Samples	18
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	37

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6966	Pontibacillus sp. CNJ912 PL04 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ448765	1527		378597

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#6966	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 17550
#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 .
#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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