Lentisphaera araneosa explained

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.^{[1] [2]} Its genome has been sequenced.^[3]

Further reading

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

External links

• Type strain of Lentisphaera araneosa at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Cho . J. C.. Vergin . K. L.. Morris . R. M.. Giovannoni . S. J.. 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. 2004. 15142250. 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00614.x.
2. Choi. Ahyoung. Yang. Seung-Jo. Rhee. Kwang-Hyun. Cho. Jang-Cheon. Lentisphaera marina sp. nov., and emended description of the genus Lentisphaera. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. April 2013. 63. 4. 10.1099/ijs.0.046433-0. 1540–1544. 22888188.
3. Thrash. J. Cameron. Cho. Jang-Cheon. Vergin. Kevin L.. Morris. Robert M.. Giovannoni. Stephen J.. Genome Sequence of Lentispheara araneosa HTCC2155T, the Type Species of the Order Lentisphaerales in the Phylum Lentisphaerae. Journal of Bacteriology. June 2010. 192. 11. 2938–2939. 10.1128/JB.00208-10. 20363947. 2876483.