''Gemmobacter megaterium'' is a
Gram-negative,
aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of ''
Gemmobacter
''Gemmobacter'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Rhodobacteraceae.
References
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria genera
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'' which has been isolated from planktonic
seaweed
Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of '' Rhodophyta'' (red), ''Phaeophyta'' (brown) and ''Chlorophyta'' (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as ...
from the
Zhoushan
Zhoushan , formerly romanized as Chusan, is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang. It consists of an archipelago of islands at the southern mouth of H ...
sea area in
China
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.
References
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria described in 2014
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