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SUBMITTER: Albuquerque L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5982127 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Albuquerque Luciana L Polónia Ana Rita M ARM Barroso Cristina C Froufe Hugo J C HJC Lage Olga O Lobo-da-Cunha Alexandre A Egas Conceição C da Costa Milton S MS
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 20180110 4
An isolate, designated SPSPC-11<sup>T</sup>, with an optimum growth temperature of about 50 °C and an optimum pH for growth between 7.5 and 8.0, was recovered from a hot spring in central Portugal. Based on phylogenetic analysis of its 16S rRNA sequence, the new organism is most closely related to the species of the genus Thermonema but with a pairwise sequence similarity of <85 %. The isolate was orange-pigmented, formed non-motile long filaments and rod-shaped cells that stain Gram-negative. T ...[more]