Lentisphera araneosa is a marine bacteria strain in the bacterial phylum Lentisphaerota. They are able to produce viscous transparent exopolymers and grow attached to each other by the polymer in a three-dimensional configuration. They are part of the natural surface bacterial population in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They are less than 1% of the total bacterial community. This species is gram negative, non-motile, non-pigmented, aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, and facultatively oligotrophic sphere-shaped.[2][3] Its genome has been sequenced.[4]

Lentisphaerae aranesa
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Cho et al. 2004
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L. araneosa
Binomial name
Lentisphera araneosa
Cho et al. 2004[1]

References

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  1. ^ Parte, A.C. "Lentisphaera". LPSN.
  2. ^ Cho, J. C.; Vergin, K. L.; Morris, R. M.; Giovannoni, S. J. (2004). "Lentisphaera araneosa gen. Nov., sp. Nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, Lentisphaerae". Environmental Microbiology. 6 (6): 611–621. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00614.x. PMID 15142250.
  3. ^ Choi, Ahyoung; Yang, Seung-Jo; Rhee, Kwang-Hyun; Cho, Jang-Cheon (April 2013). "Lentisphaera marina sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Lentisphaera". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (4): 1540–1544. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.046433-0. PMID 22888188.
  4. ^ Thrash, J. Cameron; Cho, Jang-Cheon; Vergin, Kevin L.; Morris, Robert M.; Giovannoni, Stephen J. (June 2010). "Genome Sequence of Lentispheara araneosa HTCC2155T, the Type Species of the Order Lentisphaerales in the Phylum Lentisphaerae". Journal of Bacteriology. 192 (11): 2938–2939. doi:10.1128/JB.00208-10. PMC 2876483. PMID 20363947.

Further reading

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  • Limam, Rim Driss; Bouchez, Theodore; Chouari, Rakia; Li, Tianlun; Barkallah, Insaf; Landoulsi, Ahmed; Sghir, Abdelghani (Oct 2010). "Detection of WWE2-related Lentisphaerae by 16S rRNA gene sequencing and fluorescence in situ hybridization in landfill leachate". Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 56 (10): 846–852. doi:10.1139/W10-065. PMID 20962908.
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