''Thalassotalea crassostreae'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

, aerobic and

rod-shaped A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name ''Bacillu ...

bacterium from the genus of

Thalassotalea ''Thalassotalea'' is an aerobic and chemo-organo-heterotrophic genus of bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae The Colwelliaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bac ...

which has been isolated from the oyster ''

Crassostrea gigas The Pacific oyster, Japanese oyster, or Miyagi oyster (''Magallana gigas''), is an oyster native to the Pacific coast of Asia. It has become an introduced species in North America, Australia, Europe, and New Zealand. Etymology The genus ''Maga ...

'' from the Yeongheung Island in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Thalassotalea crassostreae'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Alteromonadales Bacteria described in 2017 {{Alteromonadales-stub