Yeosuana

Flavobacteriaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Flavobacteria
Order:	Flavobacteriales
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Yeosuana
Species:	Y. aromativorans
Binomial name
	Yeosuana aromativorans; Kwon et al. 2006

Yeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium.[1]

References

K.K. Kwon; H.-S. Lee; H.-B. Jung; J.-H. Kang & S.-J. Kim (2006). "Yeosuana aromativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium belonging to the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from estuarine sediment of the South Sea, Korea". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 4): 727–732. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64073-0. PMID 16585684.

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[1] K.K. Kwon; H.-S. Lee; H.-B. Jung; J.-H. Kang & S.-J. Kim (2006). "Yeosuana aromativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium belonging to the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from estuarine sediment of the South Sea, Korea". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 56 (Pt 4): 727–732. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64073-0. PMID 16585684.