| flavobacterium algicola sp. nov., isolated from marine algae. | a rod-shaped gram-staining-negative, non-motile, aerobic and fucoidan-digesting strain, designated tc2(t), was isolated from marine algae collected from the coast of the sea of okhotsk at abashiri, hokkaido, japan. the bacterium formed yellow, translucent, circular and convex colonies. comparative 16s rrna gene sequence analysis indicated that the strain belonged to the genus flavobacterium, with the highest sequence similarities of 97.1 to 97.3 % to the type strains of flavobacterium frigidariu ... | 2010 | 19651729 |