Kordiimonas gwangyangensis

Rhodobacteraceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Kordiimonadales
Family:	Kordiimonadaceae
Genus:	Kordiimonas
Species:	K. gwangyangensis; Kwon et al., 2005

Kordiimonas gwangyangensis (strain GW14-5^T) is a marine bacterium that can degrade a number of polycyclic hydrocarbons. It was first found in Gwangyang Bay.[1]

References

K.K. Kwon; H.-S. Lee; S.H. Yang; S.-J. Kim. (2005). "Kordiimonas gwangyangensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from marine sediments that forms a distinct phyletic lineage (Kordiimonadales ord. nov.) in the Alphaproteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (Pt 5): 2033–2037. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63684-0. PMID 16166706.

External links

Type strain of Kordiimonas gwangyangensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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[1] K.K. Kwon; H.-S. Lee; S.H. Yang; S.-J. Kim. (2005). "Kordiimonas gwangyangensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from marine sediments that forms a distinct phyletic lineage (Kordiimonadales ord. nov.) in the Alphaproteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (Pt 5): 2033–2037. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63684-0. PMID 16166706.