| taxonomic study of marinomonas strains isolated from the seagrass posidonia oceanica, with descriptions of marinomonas balearica sp. nov. and marinomonas pollencensis sp. nov. | novel aerobic, gram-negative bacteria with dna g+c contents below 50 mol% were isolated from the culturable microbiota associated with the mediterranean seagrass posidonia oceanica. 16s rrna gene sequence analyses revealed that they belong to the genus marinomonas. strain ivia-po-186 is a strain of the species marinomonas mediterranea, showing 99.77 % 16s rrna gene sequence similarity with the type strain, mmb-1(t), and sharing all phenotypic characteristics studied. this is the first descriptio ... | 2010 | 19648336 |