Description of Alcanivorax
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Gram negative, aerobic, rods, may produce mucoid colonies. May degrade aliphatic compounds, can grow on alkanes. Halophilic. Published as YAKIMOV MM, GOLYSHIN PN, LANG S, MOORE ERB, ABRAHAM WR, LÜNSDORF H and TIMMIS KN. 1998. Alcanivorax borkumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new, hydrocarbon-degrading and surfactant-producing marine bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1998, 48, 339-348.
