| oceanobacillus chironomi sp. nov., a halotolerant and facultatively alkaliphilic species isolated from a chironomid egg mass. | chironomids (diptera; chironomidae) are the most abundant insects in freshwater aquatic habitats. females of the genus chironomus lay egg masses containing hundreds of eggs embedded in a gelatinous matrix. a bacterial strain, designated t3944d(t), was isolated from a chironomid egg mass sampled from a waste-stabilization pond in northern israel and was found to be gram-positive, motile by peritrichous flagella, endospore-forming, halotolerant and facultatively alkaliphilic. comparative 16s rrna ... | 2007 | 17267960 |