Polynucleobacter yangtzensis is an aerobic, chemo-organotrophic, catalase- and oxidase-positive, sometimes motile, free-living bacterium of the genus Polynucleobacter, isolated from Yangtze River in the City of Nanjing (China). The species represents planktonic bacteria (bacterioplankton) dwelling in alkaline freshwater systems. The species name refers to the origin of the type strain.
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| Species: | P. yangtzensis
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| Polynucleobacter yangtzensis Hahn et al. 2016[1]
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P. necessarius subsp. asymbioticus, Polynucleobacter sp. MWH-JaK3 | |
References edit
- ^ Hahn, Martin W.; Schmidt, Johanna; Pitt, Alexandra; Taipale, Sami J.; Lang, Elke (2016). "Reclassification of four Polynucleobacter necessarius strains as representatives of Polynucleobacter asymbioticus comb. Nov., Polynucleobacter duraquae sp. nov., Polynucleobacter yangtzensis sp. nov. And Polynucleobacter sinensis sp. nov., and emended description of Polynucleobacter necessarius". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (8): 2883–2892. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001073. PMC 5018217. PMID 27064460.
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