Vicingus serpentipes Wiese et al. 2018
General information
Name
Vicingus serpentipes
Valid publication
2018
Nomenclature type
ANORD5;NCIMB 15042;DSM 103558
;MTCC 12686
Etymology
L. n. <i>serpens</i>, <i>serpentis</i>, snake; L. n. <i>pes</i>, pedis, foot; N.L. masc. n. <i>serpentipes</i>, in recognition of its gliding motility.
Ecology
GPS
54°29.166' N 8°48.746' E
Source
isolated from a biofilm of a stone collected at Nordstand (North Sea, Germany).
Morphology
Cells are rod-shaped (0.4-0.5 × 1.2-2.2 µm), occasionally coccoid (0.2-0.8 µm), motile by means of gliding and produced threads of slime.
Morphology standardized
cell shape | length | width |
---|---|---|
rod; coccus | 1.2-2.2 | 0.4-0.5 |
motility |
---|
- |
Physiology
Nutrition type
chemoheterotroph
Oxygen requirement
obligately aerobic
GC
GC_content |
---|
31.0 |
Gram
staining |
---|
negative |
C/N source
positive results | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sucrose | maltose | galactose | glucose | trehalose | fructose | starch | gelatin | casein |
Biochemistry
Fattyacids
Name | Account |
---|---|
iso-C17:0 3-OH | 6.8 |
iso-C15:1 G | 5.0 |
iso-C17:1 I and/or anteiso-C17:1 B | 15.0 |
iso-C15:0 | 41.0 |
iso-C17:1 ω10c | 12.9 |
Polar lipids
PE
Quinones
MK-7
Enzymology
Enzyme | Activity |
---|---|
acid phosphatase | + |
alkaline phosphatase | + |
leucine arylamidase | + |
naphthol AS-BI-phosphohydrolase | + |
urease | + |
valine arylamidase | + |
α-fucosidase | + |
α-galactosidase | + |
α-glucosidase | + |
α-mannosidase | + |
β-galactosidase | + |
β-glucosidase | + |
Taxonomy marker
KX499499
Vicingus serpentipes
Create date: 07-SEP-2017
Length
1488
Topology
linear
Strandedness
double
Genomics
Submitter date: 2019/08/12 00:00 Update date: 2019/08/17 00:00
Source
University of Tasmania
Coverage
220
Assembly status
Contig
Assembly class
haploid
Strain List
References
1
Wiese, J., Saha, M., Wenzel-Storjohann, A., Weinberger, F., Schmaljohann, R., and Imhoff, J.F. Vicingus serpentipes gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Flavobacteriales from the North Sea. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68(1):333-340.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002509]
[PMID:29205136]