Nitrate reduction in the genusChromobacterium

Eltinge, Ethel T.

doi:10.1007/bf02538321

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“…Such characters were not found in our marine strains although they had some characters in common with either the mesophilic Chronzobacterium o r with the psychrophilic Clzromobacterium (Table 6). Nitrate reduction would be less important as far as taxonomy is concerned, according t o the data of Eltinge (1956), since some terrestrial species belonging t o the genus do not have this property. Hamilton and Austin (1967) have studied a marine violet-pigmented strain, isolated from Atlantic Ocean water, which proved very similar t o the strains selected for o u r own study; that strain showed the same similarities as well as the same differences with the terrestrial Cl7ronzo-bacterium ( Table 6).…”

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Morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of some violet-pigmented bacteria isolated from seawater

Mj¹

1976

Can. J. Microbiol.

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Sixteen violet-pigmented heterotrophic bacilli were isolated from Mediterranean coastal waters. Morphological and physiological studies showed that they have a number of characteristics specific to the genus Chromobacterium. However, the absence of catalase, the presence of oxidase, and, more especially, the low percentage of bases guanine and cytosine in their DNA exclude them from the genus. The specificity of some characters assigned to Chromobacterium can thus be discussed. Several features allow us to consider such bacteria as being related to the genus Alteromonas; their consistency within the 16 strains investigated leads us to consider them as a single species, for which the specific name Alteromonas luteo-violaceus (sp. nov.) is proposed.

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“…The physiology of these bacteria gave rise to several studies which resulted in their being classified within the genus Chromobncteri~/117 (Gilman 1953 ;Cruess-Gallaghan and Gorman 1935;Leifson 1956;Sneath 19560, 1956b;Eltinge 1957).…”

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