Genus Brevifollis
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
Brevifollis Otsuka et al. 2013, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Brevifollis gellanilyticus Otsuka et al. 2013.
Etymology: L. adj. brevis, short, small; L. masc. n. follis, a windball; N.L. masc. n. Brevifollis, a short ball, intended to mean a small ovoid cell.
Reference: OTSUKA, S., SUENAGA, T., VU, H. T., UEDA, H., YOKOTA, A. and SENOO, K. 2013. Brevifollis gellanilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a gellan gum-degrading bacterium of the class Verrucomicrobiae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 3075-3078..
Original article in IJSEM Online
Brevifollis gellanilyticus Otsuka et al. 2013, sp. nov.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) DC2c-G4=NBRC 108608=CIP 110457.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB552872.
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. gellanum, gellan; N.L. masc. adj. lyticus (from Gr. adj. lutikon) able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. masc. adj. gellanilyticus, gellan-dissolving.
Source: Environmental - soil.
Reference: OTSUKA, S., SUENAGA, T., VU, H. T., UEDA, H., YOKOTA, A. and SENOO, K. 2013. Brevifollis gellanilyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a gellan gum-degrading bacterium of the class Verrucomicrobiae. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 3075-3078.
Original article in IJSEM Online