Yeosuana

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Flavobacteriaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Yeosuana
Species: Y. aromativorans
Binomial name
Yeosuana aromativorans
Kwon et al. 2006

Yeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ K.K. Kwon, H.-S. Lee, H.-B. Jung, J.-H. Kang. & S.-J. Kim (2006). "Yeosuana aromativorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a mesophilic marine bacterium belonging to the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from estuarine sediment of the South Sea, Korea". Int. J. Sys. Evol. Microbiol. 56: 727–732. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64073-0.