''Jeotgalicoccus marinus'' is a
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
of
Gram-positive
In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall.
Gram-positive bacte ...
,
facultatively anaerobic
A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if oxygen is absent.
Some examples of facultatively anaerobic bacteria are ''Staphylococcus' ...
bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...
.
It is moderately
halophilic
The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, ...
, it grows in environments with 0.5–25.0 % total
salts
In chemistry, a salt is a chemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions, which results in a compound with no net electric charge. A common example is table salt, with positively cha ...
.
The cells are
coccoid. The
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
was isolated from a
sea urchin
Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin live on the seabed of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of ...
(''
Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus
''Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus'' is a species of sea urchin, the only one in the monotypic genus ''Hemicentrotus''. It was first described by the American engineer and marine zoologist Alexander Agassiz in 1864 as ''Psammechinus pulcherrimus''. It ...
'') from the
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...
.
Further reading
References
[Yi-Guang Chen, Yu-Qin Zhang, Jin-Xiao Shi, Huai-Dong Xiao, Shu-Kun Tang, Zhu-Xiang Liu, Ke Huang, Xiao-Long Cui und Wen-Jun Li. ''Jeotgalicoccus marinus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a sea urchin'' In: ''International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.'' Band 59, Nr. 7, Juni 2009, S. 1625–1629.]
External links
Type strain of ''Jeotgalicoccus marinus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
marinus
Bacteria described in 2009
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