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Rhodococcus erythropolis (Gray and Thornton 1928) Goodfellow and Alderson 1979

IEGM 766

<- 2001, M.I. Rychkova, 7 IZh. Isolated from: oil-polluted soil, oil-extracting enterprise, Udmurt Republic, Russia. Taxonomy/description: 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis (GenBank accession number MG607378). Properties: uses hydrocarbons and crude oil as a sole carbon source; transforms β-sitosterol (277); resistant to Pb2+ (20.0 mM), Cd2+, Cr6+, Cu2+, Ni2+, Zn2+ (5.0 mM). (Medium 2, 8 or 11, 28oC).

Medium: 2, 8, 11

Reference(s): 277, 322, 318