title: Isolation of a new polysaccharide-digesting bacterium from a salt marsh.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Andrykovitch
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Marx