Paracoccus marcusii MA

Liu, Qingmei, Kim, Seung-Bum, Cho, Jang-Cheon, Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Joh, Ki-seong, Cha, Chang-Jun, Chun, Jong-sik, Seong, Chi-Nam, Bae, Jin-Woo, Jahng, Kwang-Yeop, Jeon, Che-Ok & Im, Wan-Taek, 2015, A report of 29 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria, Journal of Species Research 4 (2), pp. 97-108 : 107

Description of Paracoccus marcusii MA 11

Cells are Gram­staining­negative, flagellated, diffusible pigmented, and coccus shaped. Colonies are circular and orange-colored after 2 days on MA at 25°C. Positive for glucose fermentation, urease, esculin hydrolysis and β -galactosidase in API 20NE, but negative for nitrate reduction, indole production, arginine dihydrolase and gelatinase. Does not utilize Capric acid, malic acid, trisodium citrate, D-glucose, L-arabinose, D-mannose, D-mannitol, N -acetyl-glucosamine, D-maltose, potassium gluconate, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain MA11 (= NIBRBA0000113969) has been isolated from a forest soil sample, Gwanaksan, Seoul, Korea.