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Bacteria => Firmicutes => Bacilli => Bacillales => Bacillaceae => Bacillus => Bacillus epiphytus ZoBell and Upham (1944)
Gram positive, 0.7-0.9 /2.0-3.0 μm, motile with peritrichous flagella.
Spores:ellipsoidal/oval, central or paracentral, not swelling the sporangium.
Spores:ellipsoidal/oval, central or paracentral, not swelling the sporangium.
Maximum temperature, 45 ºC; minimum temperature 5 ºC
No growth in anaerobic agar
Growth in 5% NaCl & in 10% NaCl
No growth at 5.7 pH
No growth in anaerobic agar
Growth in 5% NaCl & in 10% NaCl
No growth at 5.7 pH
Isolated from marine phytoplancton.
Unknown.
- Gordon R.E., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H. (1973) – The genus Bacillus . Agriculture Handbook No. 427, U.S.D.A., Washington D.C.
- Buchanan R.E., Gibbons N.E., Cowan S.T., Holt J.G., Liston J., Murray R.G.E., Niven C.F., Ravin A.W., Stanier R.W. ( 1974) –
Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Eight Edition, The Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore.
Catalase, hydrolase of starch, reduction of nitrate to nitrite, decomposition of casein,
deamination of phenylalanine - positive.
Voges-Proskauer, resistance to lysozyme, citrate utilization, indole - negative
Acid from glucose, mannitol, xylose . Acid not produced from arabinose.
deamination of phenylalanine - positive.
Voges-Proskauer, resistance to lysozyme, citrate utilization, indole - negative
Acid from glucose, mannitol, xylose . Acid not produced from arabinose.
(c) Costin Stoica
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