Alteromonas colwelliana sp. nov., an Isolate from Oyster Habitats
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- 1 July 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 38 (3) , 240-244
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-38-3-240
Abstract
A new species of Alteromonas, for which the name Alteromonas colwelliana is proposed, is described. This organism is a gram-negative, marine, aerobic, polarly flagellated rod-shaped bacterium that can grow as filamentous helices, synthesize melanin, and excrete acidic polysaccharide exopolymer. Its deoxyribonucleic acid has a guanine-plus-cytosine content of 46 mol% and less than 20% homology with the deoxyribonucleic acids of other phenotypically related species. The type strain is A. colwelliana LST-W (= ATCC 39565).This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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