Genus Owenweeksia
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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").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005, gen. nov.
Type species: ¤ Owenweeksia hongkongensis Lau et al. 2005.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Owenweeksia, named after Owen B. Weeks, who did a lot of work in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s on Flavobacterium, Cytophaga and related species.
Valid publication: LAU (K.W.K.), NG (C.Y.M.), REN (J.), LAU (S.C.L.), QIAN (P.Y.), WONG (P.K.), T. C. LAU (T.C.) and WU (M.): Owenweeksia hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes'. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1051-1057.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Luteibaculum Lau et al. 2005 emend. Shahina et al. 2013.
Reference: SHAHINA, M., HAMEED, A., LIN, S.-Y., LAI, W.-A., LIU, Y.-C., HSU, Y.-H. and YOUNG, C.-C. 2013. Luteibaculum oceani gen. nov., sp. nov., a carotenoid-producing, lipolytic bacterium isolated from surface seawater, and emended description of the genus Owenweeksia Lau et al. 2005. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 63, 4765-4770.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Owenweeksia hongkongensis Lau et al. 2005, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) UST20020801 = DSM 17368 = JCM 12287 = NRRL B-23963.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB125062, CP003156 (complete genome).
Etymology: N.L. fem. adj. hongkongensis, pertaining to Hong Kong.
Valid publication: LAU (K.W.K.), NG (C.Y.M.), REN (J.), LAU (S.C.L.), QIAN (P.Y.), WONG (P.K.), T. C. LAU (T.C.) and WU (M.): Owenweeksia hongkongensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium of the phylum 'Bacteroidetes'. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2005, 55, 1051-1057.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Owenweeksia hongkongensis Lau et al. 2005 emend. Zhou et al. 2013.
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) UST20020801 = DSM 17368 = JCM 12287 = NRRL B-23963.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: AB125062, CP003156 (complete genome).
Etymology: .
Reference: ZHOU (Y.), SU (J.), LAI (Q.), LI (X.), YANG (X.), DONG (P.) and ZHENG (T.): Phaeocystidibacter luteus gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Cryomorphaceae isolated from the marine alga Phaeocystis globosa, and emended description of Owenweeksia hongkongensis. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2013, 63, 1143-1148.
Original article in IJSEM Online