RT Book, Section
T1 Photobacterium.
A1 Labella Vera, Alejandro Manuel
A1 Borrego-García, Juan José
A2 Romalde, Jesús
K1 Bacterias gram negativas
AB Pho.to.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. neut. n. phôs, light; Gr. neut.dim. n. bakterion, a small rod; N.L. neut. n. Photobacterium, light (-producing) bacterium.The genus Photobacterium contains 37 species withvalidated names and 3 species whose names havenot been validated. Cells are short bacilli Gram-stainnegative, and nonsporulated. Facultatively anaerobic. Require NaCl for growth (optimal concentration1 – 3%). Several species present bioluminescence. Someof them are piezophilic and others are psychrophilic.Isolated from marine environment (seawater andsediment), associated with aquatic animals (mutualism relationships), but some are pathogens forpoikilothermic and homeothermic animals.DNA G + C content (mol%): 38.5–53.6.Type species: Photobacterium phosphoreum Beijerinck 1889AL (basonym: Micrococcus phosphoreus Cohn1878).
PB Wiley
YR 2023
FD 2023-06-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36729
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36729
LA eng
NO Photobacterium. In: Bergey´s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB) (2023). Jesus L. Romalde (Ed). Wiley doi: 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01076.pub2.
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DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026