| lentisphaera araneosa gen. nov., sp. nov, a transparent exopolymer producing marine bacterium, and the description of a novel bacterial phylum, lentisphaerae. | two phylogenetically distinct marine strains producing transparent exopolymers (tep), designated htcc2155(t) and htcc2160, were cultivated from oregon coast seawater by dilution to extinction in a high throughput culturing format. when cultured in low-nutrient seawater media, these strains copiously produced alcian blue-stainable viscous tep. growing cells were attached to each other by the tep in a three dimensional network. polymerase chain reaction employing 16s rdna primers specific for the ... | 2004 | 15142250 |