TAXONOMY OF MARINE BACTERIA - GENUS BENECKEA
TAXONOMY OF MARINE BACTERIA - GENUS BENECKEA
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DOI:
10.1128/jb.107.1.268-294.1971
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发表时间:
1971-01-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
MANDEL, M
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作者:
BAUMANN, P;BAUMANN, L;MANDEL, M
One-hundred-and-forty-five isolates of marine origin were submitted to an extensive physiological, nutritional, and morphological characterization. All strains were gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, straight or curved rods which were motile by means of flagella. Glucose was fermented with the production of acid but no gas. Sodium but no organic growth factors were required. None of the strains were able to denitrify or fix molecular nitrogen. The results of nutritional and physiological tests were submitted to a numerical analysis. On the basis of phenotypic similarity, nine groups were established. These groups could be distinguished from one another by multiple, unrelated, phenotypic traits. Six groups which had deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) containing 45 to 48 moles per cent guanine plus cytosine (GC) were assigned to a redefined genusBeneckea. All of the strains in this genus, when grown in liquid medium, had a single, polar flagellum. When grown on a solid medium, many strains had peritrichous flagella. Two groups were similar to previously described species and were designatedB. alginolyticaandB. natriegens. The remaining four groups were designatedB. campbellii, B. neptuna, B. nereida, andB. pelagia. An additional group of phenotypically similar strains having the properties of the genusBeneckeawas not included in the numerical analysis. These strains were readily separable from species of this genus and were designatedB. parahaemolytica. Of the remaining groups, one was identified asPhotobacterium fischeri. The other group (B-2) which had about 41 moles% GC content in its DNA could not be placed into existing genera.