| sphingomonas metalli sp. nov., isolated from an abandoned lead-zinc mine. | a gram-stain-negative and non-motile bacterial strain designated 9o-5t was isolated from an abandoned lead-zinc mine in meizhou, guangdong province, southern china. the isolate was orange-pigmented, aerobic, and oxidase- and catalase-positive. phylogenetic analyses based on 16s rrna gene sequences indicated that strain 9o-5t belongs to the genus sphingomonas and was closely related to sphingomonas abaci dsm 15867t (97.6 % similarity), sphingomonas phyllosphaerae fa2t (96.9 %) and shingomonas gua ... | 2016 | 26908362 |