Nonlabens ulvanivorans
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" eat 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 green seaweeds of the "Chlorophyta" phylum.
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