Aequorivita antarctica Bowman and Nichols 2002
General information
Name
Aequorivita antarctica
Valid publication
2002
Etymology
L. fem. adj. <i>antarctica</i>, southern; here pertaining to Antarctica.
Ecology
Source
isolated from under-ice sea water of Prydz Bay, Antarctica.
Morphology
Cells are rods or short filaments in young cultures (0.5-20.0 × 0.2-0.3 µm). Forms bright-orange colonies.
Morphology standardized
cell shape | length | width |
---|---|---|
rod; filament | 0.5-20.0 | 0.2-0.3 |
Physiology
Nutrition type
chemoheterotroph
Oxygen requirement
obligately aerobic
GC
GC_content |
---|
38-39 |
Gram
staining |
---|
negative |
Growth temperature
range |
---|
2.0-25.0 |
C/N source
positive results | ||
---|---|---|
D-glucose | yeast extract | urea |
negative results | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
starch | gelatin | aesculin | tween 80 | L-tyrosine | carboxymethylcellulose | xylan | alginate | xanthine | dextran | cellulose |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
---|---|
iso-C17:1 ω5c | 5.8 |
anteiso-C15:1 ω10c | 16.0 |
anteiso-C15:0 | 15.7 |
iso-C15:0 | 7.6 |
iso-C16:0 3-OH | 9.2 |
anteiso-C17:1 ω7c | 5.0 |
anteiso-C15:0 3-OH | 5.8 |
iso-C15:1 ω10c | 9.5 |
iso-C15:0 3-OH | 5.4 |
C16:1 ω7c | 7.8 |
Nitrate rdc
-
Polar lipids
PE
Quinones
MK-6
Enzymology
Enzyme | Activity |
---|---|
acetyl β-glucosaminidase | - |
alkaline phosphatase | + |
arginine dihydrolase | - |
lecithinase | - |
lysine decarboxylase | - |
ornithine decarboxylase | - |
α-fucosidase | - |
β-galactosidase | - |
β-glucosidase | - |
β-glucuronidase | - |
Taxonomy marker
Genomics
Submitter date: 2019/08/14 00:00 Update date: 2019/08/16 00:00
Source
University of Tasmania
Coverage
350
Assembly status
Contig
Assembly class
haploid
Strain List
References
1
Bowman, J.P., and Nichols, D.S. Aequorivita gen. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from terrestrial and marine Antarctic habitats. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2002) 52:1533-1541.[DOI:10.1099/00207713-52-5-1533]
[PMID:12361255]
2
Liu, J.-J., Zhang, X.-Q., Pan, J., Sun, C., Zhang, Y., Li, C.-Q., Zhu, X.-F., and Wu, M. Aequorivita viscosa sp. nov., isolated from an intertidal zone, and emended descriptions of Aequorivita antarctica and Aequorivita capsosiphonis. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2013) 63:3192-3196.[DOI:10.1099/ijs.0.049635-0]
[PMID:23435250]