Inquilinus limosus MMS

Jung, Hye Su, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Seung-Bum, Yi, Hana, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Joh, Kiseong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Im, Wan-Taek, Kim, Myung Kyum & Jeon, Soon Dong Lee and Che Ok, 2019, A report of 46 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Deltaproteobacteria and Epsilonproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 8 (2), pp. 161-175 : 170

Description of Inquilinus limosus MMS 17-GJ036

Cells are gram-staining-negative, non-flagellated, and rod-shaped. Colonies are Irregular, convex, glistening, watery, and translucent beige-colored after three days of incubation at 30℃ on ISP 2 agar. Positive for esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase activity. Negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose fermentation and arginine dihydrolase, urease, and gelatinase activity. Utilizes D- Glucose, L- arabinose, D- mannose, D- mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D- maltose, potassium gluconate, malic acid, and trisodium citrate. Does not utilize capric acid, adipic acid, and phenylacetic acid. Strain MMS17- GJ036 (= VYWGBAC000000228) was isolated from a soil sample, Daejeon, Korea.