Kordiimonas gwangyangensis

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Rhodobacteraceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Kordiimonadales
Family: Kordiimonadaceae
Genus: Kordiimonas
Species: K. gwangyangensis
Kwon et al., 2005

Kordiimonas gwangyangensis (strain GW14-5T) is a marine bacterium that can degrade a number of polycyclic hydrocarbons. It was first found in Gwangyang Bay[1].

[edit] References

  1. ^ K.K. Kwon, H.-S. Lee, S.H. Yang & S.-J. Kim. (2005). "Kordiimonas gwangyangensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from marine sediments that forms a distinct phyletic lineage (Kordiimonadales ord. nov.) in the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’". INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 55: 2033–2037. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63684-0. 



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