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Appeared in: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2020

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01541

Abstract: 

Kis.ti.mo'nas. L. fem. n. monas, a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Kistimonas, a monad from KIST, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology.

Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Oceanospirillales / Endozoicomonadaceae / Kistimonas

The genus Kistimonas accommodates bacteria with motile, rod-shaped cells. Non-spore-forming. Gram-strain-negative. Aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. Catalase- and oxidase-variable.

All Kistimonas species are able to grow between 15 and 30°C. Some species are able to grow at 10, 37, and even 45°C. All species grow at a pH range of pH 6.0–10.0 and in the presence of 1–4% NaCl. No growth without NaCl. Growth up to 9% NaCl was reported for some species.

Genome sequence data are not available yet. Predominant cellular fatty acids of all Kistimonas species are a summed feature composed of C_{16 : 1} ω7c and/or iso-C_15:0 2-OH and C_{16 : 0}. Major polar lipids are phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphoethanolamine, and diphosphatidylglycerol. The major respiratory quinone is ubiquinone Q-9. The genus is a member of the class Gammaproteobacteria, order Oceanospirillales, forming a monophyletic clade within the family Endozoicomonadaceae. Known habitats are marine invertebrates including the skin of the sea star Asterias amurensis, the gastrointestinal tract of the sandworm Alitta succinea, and dead ark clam Scapharca broughtonii.

DNA G + C content (mol%): 47.3–52.5 (HPLC, T _m).

Type species: Kistimonas asteriae Choi et al. 2010^VP.

Harvard Citation style: Glaeser, S. and Kämpfer, P. (2020) Kistimonas, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01541

APA Citation style: Glaeser, S., & Kämpfer, P. (2020). Kistimonas. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01541