| amphritea japonica sp. nov. and amphritea balenae sp. nov., isolated from the sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off kagoshima, japan. | two novel species were isolated from the sediment adjacent to sperm whale carcasses off kagoshima, japan, at a depth of about 230 m. the isolated strains, jamm 1866(t), jamm 1548 and jamm 1525(t), were gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and motile by means of a single polar or bipolar flagellum. phylogenetic analysis based on 16s rrna gene sequences of strains jamm 1866(t) and jamm 1548 indicated a relationship to the symbiotic bacterial clone r21 of osedax japonicus (100 % sequence si ... | 2008 | 19060065 |