| spongiibacterium flavum gen nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family flavobacteriaceae isolated from marine sponge halichondria oshoro, and emended description of the genera croceitalea and flagellimonas. | the novel marine, gram-negative, yellow-pigmented, rod-shaped, strictly aerobic, non-flagellated, non-gliding and oxidase- and catalase-positive bacterial strain a11t was isolated from a marine sponge halichondria oshoro collected on coastline of jeju island, south korea. phylogenetic analysis based on the nearly complete 16s rrna gene sequence revealed that strain a11t was a members of the genera flavobacteriaceae. its closest relatives were members of the genera muricauda, flagellimonas, and c ... | 2011 | 21724954 |