Brachybacterium aquaticum is a species of Gram positive, strictly aerobic, pale yellow-pigmented bacterium. The cells are coccoid during the stationary phase, and irregular rods during the exponential phase. It was first isolated from a seawater sample collected from the coastal region of Kovalam, India off the Indian Ocean. The name is derived from Latin aquaticum (living in water).
| Brachybacterium aquaticum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetia |
| Order: | Micrococcales |
| Family: | Dermabacteraceae |
| Genus: | Brachybacterium |
| Species: | B. aquaticum
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| Binomial name | |
| Brachybacterium aquaticum Kaur et al. 2016
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The optimum growth temperature for B. aquaticum is 30 °C, but can grow in the 20-37 °C range. The optimum pH is 8.0 and can grow in pH 7.0-11.0.[1]
References
edit- ^ Kaur, Gurwinder; Kumar, Narender; Mual, Poonam; Kumar, Anand; Kumar, Rajendran Mathan; Mayilraj, Shanmugam (2016). "Brachybacterium aquaticum sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from seawater". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (11): 4705–4710. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001414. PMID 27514821.
