''Marinobacter excellens'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
and
halophilic
A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
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bacterium from the genus of
Marinobacter
''Marinobacter'' is a genus of bacteria found in sea water. They are also found in a variety of salt lakes.
A number of strains and species can degrade hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting enti ...
which has been isolated from sediments from the
Chazhma Bay from the
Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...
.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Marinobacter excellens'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Further reading
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Alteromonadales
Bacteria described in 2003
Halophiles