| planococcus plakortidis sp. nov., isolated from marine sponge plakortis simplex (schulze) collected in the bay of bengal. | summarya novel coccoid-shaped strain, as/asp6 (ii)(t) was isolated from a sample taken from plakortis simplex (schulze), a marine sponge, collected at a depth of 30 m from the bay of bengal. this strain was identified by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. the results of 16s rrna gene sequence analysis, showed that strain as/asp6 (ii)(t) should be assigned to the genus planococcus. chemotaxonomical data (a4 -type peptidoglycan; mk-6, mk-7 and mk-8 menaquinones; mainly branched cellular fatty ... | 2011 | 21642486 |