Polynucleobacter yangtzensis information

Polynucleobacter yangtzensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Burkholderiaceae
Genus:	Polynucleobacter
Species:	P. yangtzensis
Binomial name
	Polynucleobacter yangtzensis; Hahn et al. 2016
Type strain
	MWH-JaK3
Synonyms
	P. necessarius subsp. asymbioticus, Polynucleobacter sp. MWH-JaK3

Polynucleobacter yangtzensis is an aerobic, chemo-organotrophic, catalase- and oxidase-positive, sometimes motile, free-living bacterium of the genus Polynucleobacter, isolated from Yangtze River in the City of Nanjing (China). The species represents planktonic bacteria (bacterioplankton) dwelling in alkaline freshwater systems. The species name refers to the origin of the type strain.

^ Hahn, Martin W.; Schmidt, Johanna; Pitt, Alexandra; Taipale, Sami J.; Lang, Elke (2016). "Reclassification of four Polynucleobacter necessarius strains as representatives of Polynucleobacter asymbioticus comb. Nov., Polynucleobacter duraquae sp. nov., Polynucleobacter yangtzensis sp. nov. And Polynucleobacter sinensis sp. nov., and emended description of Polynucleobacter necessarius". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (8): 2883–2892. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001073. PMC 5018217. PMID 27064460.

[1] Hahn, Martin W.; Schmidt, Johanna; Pitt, Alexandra; Taipale, Sami J.; Lang, Elke (2016). "Reclassification of four Polynucleobacter necessarius strains as representatives of Polynucleobacter asymbioticus comb. Nov., Polynucleobacter duraquae sp. nov., Polynucleobacter yangtzensis sp. nov. And Polynucleobacter sinensis sp. nov., and emended description of Polynucleobacter necessarius". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (8): 2883–2892. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001073. PMC 5018217. PMID 27064460.