Chromohalobacter salexigens

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| taxon = Chromohalobacter salexigens

| authority = Arahal et al. 2001

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Chromohalobacter salexigens is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile and moderately halophilic species of marine bacteria.{{Cite journal|last1=Paul|first1=Sulav Indra|last2=Rahman|first2=Md. Mahbubur|last3=Salam|first3=Mohammad Abdus|last4=Khan|first4=Md. Arifur Rahman|last5=Islam|first5=Md. Tofazzal|date=December 2021|title=Identification of marine sponge-associated bacteria of the Saint Martin's island of the Bay of Bengal emphasizing on the prevention of motile Aeromonas septicemia in Labeo rohita|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737156|journal=Aquaculture|volume=545|pages=737156|doi=10.1016/j.aquaculture.2021.737156|issn=0044-8486}} It was isolated from Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles and from marine sponges of the Saint Martin's Island area of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh."Chromohalobacter Salexigens." Microbe Wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2017. Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish in color. The type strain is DSM 3043^T (= ATCC BAA-138^T = CECT 5384^T = CCM4921^T = CIP106854^T = NCIMB 13768^T).{{cite journal | last1 = Arahal | first1 = David R. |display-authors=et al | year = 2001 | title = Chromohalobacter salexigens sp. nov., a moderately halophilic species that includes Halomonas elongata DSM 3043 and ATCC 33174 | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 51 | issue = 4| pages = 1457–1462 | doi=10.1099/00207713-51-4-1457| pmid = 11491346 | doi-access = free }} Its genome has been sequenced.{{cite journal|last1=Copeland|first1=Alex|last2=O’Connor|first2=Kathleen|last3=Lucas|first3=Susan|last4=Lapidus|first4=Alla|last5=Berry|first5=Kerrie W.|last6=Detter|first6=John C.|last7=Del Rio|first7=Tijana Glavina|last8=Hammon|first8=Nancy|last9=Dalin|first9=Eileen|last10=Tice|first10=Hope|last11=Pitluck|first11=Sam|last12=Bruce|first12=David|last13=Goodwin|first13=Lynne|last14=Han|first14=Cliff|last15=Tapia|first15=Roxanne|last16=Saunders|first16=Elizabeth|last17=Schmutz|first17=Jeremy|last18=Brettin|first18=Thomas|last19=Larimer|first19=Frank|last20=Land|first20=Miriam|last21=Hauser|first21=Loren|last22=Vargas|first22=Carmen|last23=Nieto|first23=Joaquin J.|last24=Kyrpides|first24=Nikos C.|last25=Ivanova|first25=Natalia|last26=Göker|first26=Markus|last27=Klenk|first27=Hans-Peter|last28=Csonka|first28=Laszlo N.|last29=Woyke|first29=Tanja|title=Complete genome sequence of the halophilic and highly halotolerant Chromohalobacter salexigens type strain (1H11T)|journal=Standards in Genomic Sciences|volume=5|issue=3|year=2011|pages=379–388|issn=1944-3277|doi=10.4056/sigs.2285059|pmid=22675587|pmc=3368415}} It is a gamma-Proteobacterium, and as such, closely related to Pseudomonas and Escherichia coli .{{Cite web|url=http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/chrsa/chrsa.home.html|title=Home - Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043|website=genome.jgi.doe.gov|access-date=2017-05-07}}