Yeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium.[1]

Yeosuana aromativorans
Scientific classification
Domain:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Yeosuana

Kwon et al. 2006
Species:
Y. aromativorans
Binomial name
Yeosuana aromativorans
Kwon et al. 2006

References

edit
  1. ^ K.K. Kwon; H.-S. Lee; H.-B. Jung; J.-H. Kang & S.-J. Kim (2006). "Yeosuana aromativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium belonging to the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from estuarine sediment of the South Sea, Korea". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 4): 727–732. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64073-0. PMID 16585684.