Tenacibaculum skagerrakense

Tenacibaculum skagerrakense is a bacterium.[1] It is named after Skagerrak, Denmark, where it was first isolated. Its type strain is D30T (=ATCC BAA-458T =DSM 14836T).

Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
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T. skagerrakense
Binomial name
Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
Frette et al., 2004

Description

It is Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive. Cells are rods (0.5–15 micrometres in length) during exponential growth; spherical cells occur in stationary phase. Colonies are bright yellow and flexirubin-type pigment is absent.

References

  1. Frette, L. (2004). "Tenacibaculum skagerrakense sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the pelagic zone in Skagerrak, Denmark". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 519–524. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02398-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15023969.

Further reading

  • Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25497-8.
  • Lawrence, John M., ed. Sea Urchins: Biology and Ecology. Vol. 38. Academic Press, 2013.
  • Pavlidis, Michalis, and Constantinos Mylonas, eds. Sparidae: Biology and aquaculture of gilthead sea bream and other species. Wiley. com, 2011.


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