Mariniflexile aquimaris
A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Mariniflexile aquimaris
Classification
Higher order taxa
- Superkingdom: Bacteria
- Phylum: Bacteroidetes
- Class: Flavobacteria
- Order: Flavobacteriales
- Family: Flavobacteriaceae
- Genus: Mariniflexile
Species
Genus species - Mariniflexile aquimaris - Type Strain HWR-17t - Mariniflexil [Ma.ri.ni.fle′xi.le. L. adj. marinus marine; L. part. adj. flexilis -e pliant, pliable, flexible; N.L. neut. n. Mariniflexile a flexible marine (bacterium)]. - Mariniflexile aquimaris (a.qui.ma′ris. L. n. aqua water; L. gen. n. maris of the sea; N.L. gen. n. aquimaris of the water of the sea).
Description and significance
The genus Mariniflexile, a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes, was proposed by Nedashkovskaya et al. (2006) with Mariniflexile gromovii, isolated from a sea urchin, as the sole recognized species. Mariniflexile aquimaris is a novel species to the genus Mariniflexile that was discovered in Yellow Sea off Hwang-do, an island in Korea (Jung, Kim, Oh & Yoon, 2012). This species exhibited 97.1-97.2% 16S rRNA gene sequencing with Mariniflexile gronovii KCTC 12570T and Mariniflexile fucanivorans DSM 18792T (Jung, Kim, Oh & Yoon, 2012). There were, however, distinct phenotypic differences that the discovery of Mariniflexile aquimaris that an amendment to the description of the genus was proposed (Jung, Kim, Oh & Yoon, 2012). The new description is as follows: Motile by gliding or non-gliding. Optimal growth temperature is 25–30 °C. Oxidase activity is negative. The major polar lipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified aminolipid and an unidentified lipid (Jung, Kim, Oh & Yoon, 2012).
Cell structure and metabolism
Mariniflexile aquimaris
Colony structure
Ecology
References
1. Jung, Y., Kim, J., Oh, T., & Yoon, J. (2012). Mariniflexile aquimaris sp. nov., isolated from seawater, and emended description of the genus mariniflexile nedashkovskaya et al. 2006. Internation Journal of Systemic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 62, 539-544. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.031492-0
2. Nedashkovskaya O. I., Kim S. B., Kwak J., Mikhailov V. V., Bae K. S. (2006). Mariniflexile gromovii gen. nov., sp. nov., a gliding bacterium isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 56, 1635–1638.
3. Barbeyron T., L’Haridon S., Michel G., Czjzek M. (2008). Mariniflexile fucanivorans sp. nov., a marine member of the Flavobacteriaceae that degrades sulphated fucans from brown algae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 58, 2107–2113