| methylibium subsaxonicum spec. nov., a betaproteobacterium isolated from a hardwater rivulet. | a single strain, designated bf49(t), was isolated from a biofilm of a tufa deposit from the westerhöfer rivulet, lower saxony, germany. the g+c content of the genomic dna of strain bf49(t) was 69 mol% and the predominant ubiquinone was q-8. major fatty acids were c(16:1)omega7c/15 iso 2oh and c(16:0). comparative 16s rrna gene sequence analysis indicated that the isolate was placed within the genus methylibium, class betaproteobacteria, distantly related to the type strain methylibium petroleiph ... | 2008 | 18180990 |