Alcanivorax borkumensis CAU 1685

Joh, Kiseong, Kim, Wonyong, Kim, Myung Kyum, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cha, Chang-Jun, Im, Wan-Taek, Seo, Taegun & Yoon, Che-Ok Jeon and Jung-Hoon, 2023, A report of 156 unrecorded bacterial species of Republic of Korea belonging to the phyla Acidobacteriota, Deinococcota, Actinomycetota, Bacillota, Bacteroidota, and Pseudomonadota isolated in 2022, Journal of Species Research 12 (4), pp. 374-414 : 411

Description of Alcanivorax borkumensis CAU 1685

Cells are Gram-stain-negative, non-flagellated, and rod shaped. Colonies are white colored after incubation for 3 days on MA at 30° C. In the API 20NE system, positive for esculin hydrolysis and cytochrome oxidase; but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation, arginine dihydrolase, urease, gelatin hydrolysis, and β -galactosidase. D-Glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-D-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, capric acid, adipic acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, and phenylacetic acid are not utilized as sole carbon sources. Strain CAU 1685 (= NIBRBAC000509672) was isolated from a soil sample at Incheon, Republic of Korea .