Nonlabens ulvanivorans

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A Microbial Biorealm page on the genus Nonlabens ulvanivorans

Classification

Higher order taxa

Domain: Bacteria;
Phylum: Bacteriodetes;
Class: Flavobacteria;
Order: Flavobacteriales;
Family: Flavobacteriaceae

NCBI: [1]

Species

Nonlabens ulvanivorans

Description and significance

Nonlabens ulvanivorans stains gram-negative and is a peach-colored, rod-shaped, non-gliding, strictly aerobic, chemo-organotroph originally isolated from the feces of mollusk Aplasia punctate at Presqu'île de Pen Lan, Pleubian, Brittany, France in 2011. [1] N.ulvanivorans is considered novel for its ability to degrade and metabolize ulvan, an essential polysaccharide component of the cell-wall matrix of green seaweeds of the Chlorophyta phylum and order Ulvales [1].

Genome structure

Describe the size and content of the genome. How many chromosomes? Circular or linear? Other interesting features? What is known about its sequence?

Cell and colony structure

Interesting features of cell structure. Interesting features of colony structure.

Metabolism

Energy source(s); external electron donor(s) (=reductant source(s)); carbon source(s); oxygen classification; important molecules it produces.

Ecology

Habitat; symbiosis; contributions to the environment. metagenomic data link

Pathology

Does this organism cause disease? Human, animal, plant hosts? Virulence factors.

References

[Sample reference] [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/62/2/330; Sylvie Cousin, Marie-Laure Gulat-Okalla, Laurence Motreff, Catherine Gouyette, Christiane Bouchier, Dominique Clermont, and Chantal Bizet. Lactobacillus gigeriorum sp. nov., isolated from chicken crop. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol February 2012 62:330-334; published ahead of print March 18, 2011.} [doi:10.1099/ijs.0.028217-0.]

Edited by PUT YOUR NAME HERE of Dr. Lisa R. Moore, University of Southern Maine, Department of Biological Sciences, http://www.usm.maine.edu/bio

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