Wi.no.grads.ky.el'la. N.L. fem. n.
Winogradskyella
named after Sergey Winogradskyi, Russian soil microbiologist who made great contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria of the
Cytophaga‐Flavobacterium‐Bacteroides
phylum.
Bacteroidetes / Flavobacteriia / Flavobacteriales / Flavobacteriaceae / Winogradskyella
Rod shaped with rounded ends or rod‐coccoid‐shaped cells
0.2–1.0 × 0.4–10.0 µm. Spores are not formed. Cells are not flagellated. The majority of the strains are motile by gliding.
Produce nondiffusible yellow, orange, or orange‐yellow carotenoid pigments. No flexirubin type of pigments are produced. The cells can form net‐work‐like structures.
Chemoorganotrophs. Aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. Mesophilic
. Catalase‐, oxidase‐, and alkaline phosphatase positive. Arginine dihydrolase, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, and tryptophan deaminase are not produced.
Gelatin is hydrolyzed
, but chitin is not attacked. Indole is not produced.
Marine
, from coastal habitats. Require seawater or Na
+
for growth.
The predominant cellular fatty acids are iso‐C
15:1
G, iso‐C
15:0
, iso‐C
15:0
3‐OH, iso‐C
16:0
3‐OH, and iso‐C
17:0
3‐OH
.
The major respiratory quinone is MK‐6. The main polar lipid is phosphatidylethanolamine.
Isolated from marine environments, including seawater, sediments, seaweeds, sea urchins, starfishes, molluscs, and sponges.
DNA G + C content (mol%)
: 30–39 (
T
m
and HPLC).
Type species
:
Winogradskyella thalassocola
Nedashkovskaya, Kim, Han, Snauwaert, Vancanneyt, Swings, Kim, Lysenko, Rohde, Frolova, Mikhailov, and Bae 2005, 52
VP
emend. Nedashkovskaya, Kukhlevskiy, and Zhukova 2012, 1453
VP
.