Isolation of a new polysaccharide-digesting bacterium from a salt marsh.
A new marine bacterium that digested a variety of storage and structural polysaccharides, including agar, was isolated. Strain 2-40 is a nonfermentative gram-negative, polarly flagellated rod that sometimes grew as a filamentous helix and secreted a melaninlike pigment. Its characteristics conform to those of no previously described species.
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Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.
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