Myroides pelagicus

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Classification

Higher order taxa

Domain: Bacteria, Phylum: Bacteroidetes, Class: Flavobacteria, Order: Flavobacteriales, Family: Flavobacterium odoratum, Genus: Myroides, Species: pelagicus

Species

Myroides pelagicus

Strain

The strain is SM1-T (=IAM 15337-T=KCTC 12661-T)

Description / Growth

Myroides pelagicus is an aerobic bacterium, meaning that it grows and thrives in oxygenated environments. The pigment of Myroides pelagicus is a yellowish orange color and grows in circular colonies on an agar. It is a gram-negative bacillus bacterium. They are described as short single rods and they are pink when stained under a microscope. Myroides pelagicus is lacks flagella, and it is non-motile because there is no bacterium moving or swarming around.

Myroides pelagicus size is 0.5-1 µm in diameter and 0.2-0.3 µm wide. Myroides pelagicus grows best when the temperature is from 10-37 °C. There is an absence of growth at 4 or 45 °C. Myroides pelagicus can handle up to 9.0% NaCl, while other species can only handle 5-6% NaCl. The range of pH for growth is 5.0-9.0. The DNA G+C content was 33.6mol%.

Location / Habitat

Myroides pelagicus was found and isolated from the seawater off the coast of Thailand for a polyphasic taxonomic study.

Current Research

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References

Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds (2011). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2011/. Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Hairul Islam V.I., Saravanan S., Preetam Raj JP., Gabriel Paulraj M., Ignacimuthu S. "Myroides pelagicus from the Gut of Drosophila melanogaster Attenuates Inflammation on Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis." Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014.

Vancanneyt M., Segers U., Torck U., Hoste B., Bernardet J.F., Vandamme P., and Kersters K. "Reclassification of Flavobacterium odoraturn (Stutzer 1929)Strains to a New Genus, Myroides, as Myroides odoratus comb. nov. and Myroides odoratimimus sp. nov." International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology." Oct 1996. Volume 46, No 4. p. 926-932. <http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/46/4/926.full.pdf?origin=publication_detail>

Yoon J., Maneerat S., Kawai F. and Yokota A. "Myroides pelagicus sp. nov., isolated from seawater in Thailand". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. August 2006. < http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/56/8/1917.full?sid=11681336-3840-4571-a3b8-5ffdba51ae5f >

Edited by (Bailey Nunan), student of Rachel Larsen at the University of Southern Maine