Planococcus versutus sp. nov., isolated from soil

• Published in: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
• Main Authors: See-Too, Wah-Seng, Ee, Robson, Madhaiyan, Munusamy, Kwon, Soon-Wo, Tan, Jia Yi, Lim, Yan Lue, Convey, Peter, Pearce, David, Yin, Wai Fong, Chan, Kok-Gan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Society for General Microbiology 2017
• Subjects: C500 Microbiology; Adelaide Island; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Lagoon Island; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/30914/; https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001721; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/30914/1/IJSEM-D-16-00692_R2-2-2.pdf

A taxonomic study was performed on a novel Gram-stain-positive, coccus-shaped, orange-pigmented motile bacterium, designated as strain L10.15T. The organism was isolated from a soil sample collected in Lagoon Island (close to Adelaide Island, western Antarctic Peninsula) using a quorum-quenching enr...