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Rhodococcus ruber (Kruse 1896) Goodfellow and Alderson 1977

IEGM 227

<- 1987, I.B. Ivshina, OEGM GPK 398. Isolated from: soil, Polazna oil-extracting enterprise, Perm region, Russia. Taxonomy/description: shows positive result with Rhodococcus ruber primers in species-specific PCR (245); (95). Properties: uses propane and n-butane, liquid n-alkanes (C5-C7, C11-C16) and aliphatic alcohols (ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol) as a sole carbon source (95); resistant to Pb2+ (5.0 mM). (Medium 2 or 5, 28oC).

Medium: 2, 5

Reference(s): 95, 245, 257, 263, 277, 407