| porphyrobacter meromictius sp. nov., an appendaged bacterium, that produces bacteriochlorophyll a. | four gram-negative strains (ml4(t), ml19, ml31, ml32) of nonmotile, appendaged, budding bacteria were isolated from the meromictic mahoney lake in british columbia, canada. the strains were red to brown-red in color and produced bacteriochlorophyll a incorporated into photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. phylogenetic analysis has placed these strains within the class alphaproteobacteria, with the closest relatives being members of the genera erythrobacter, porphyrobacter, and erythromicrobi ... | 2007 | 17882507 |