Neptunomonas japonica is a species of bacteria.[1] It is Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and motile by means of a single polar or subterminal flagellum. Its type strain is JAMM 0745T (=JCM 14595T=DSM 18939T). It was first found in carcasses of a Sperm whale and is closely related to a symbiotic bacterial clone of the polychaete Osedax japonicus.

Neptunomonas japonica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Oceanospirillales
Family: Oceanospirillaceae
Genus: Neptunomonas
Species:
N. japonica
Binomial name
Neptunomonas japonica
Miyazaki et al. 2008

References edit

  1. ^ Miyazaki, M.; Nogi, Y.; Fujiwara, Y.; Kawato, M.; Kubokawa, K.; Horikoshi, K. (2008). "Neptunomonas japonica sp. nov., an Osedax japonicus symbiont-like bacterium isolated from sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off Kagoshima, Japan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (4): 866–871. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65509-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 18398184.

Further reading edit

  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
  • Hedlund, B. P.; Costa, K. C. (2010). "Neptunomonas". Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology: 1773–1779. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_127. ISBN 978-3-540-77584-3.
  • Acton, Q. Ashton. Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2012 Edition. ScholarlyEditions, 2013.

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