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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1998, p. 4057-4059, Vol. 64, No. 10
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
Comparison of a New Thiomicrospira Strain from the
Mid-Atlantic Ridge with Known Hydrothermal Vent Isolates
C. O.
Wirsen,1,*
T.
Brinkhoff,2
J.
Kuever,3
G.
Muyzer,2
S.
Molyneaux,1 and
H. W.
Jannasch1
Department of Biology, Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
02543,1 and
Molecular Ecology
Group2 and
Department of
Microbiology,3 Max-Planck-Institute for
Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Received 24 April 1998/Accepted 7 August 1998
A new autotrophic Thiomicrospira strain, MA-3, was
isolated from the surface of a polymetal sulfide deposit collected at a Mid-Atlantic Ridge hydrothermal vent site. The DNA homology among three
vent isolates, Thiomicrospira crunogena,
Thiomicrospira sp. strain L-12, and
Thiomicrospira sp. strain MA-3, was 99.3% or higher,
grouping them as the same species, T. crunogena (type strain, ATCC 35932). The fact that T. crunogena and
Thiomicrospira sp. strain L-12 were isolated from Pacific
vent sites demonstrates a cosmopolitan distribution of this species.
*
Corresponding author. Mailing address: Biology
Department, Redfield Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543. Phone: (508) 289-2307. Fax: (508)
457-2169. E-mail: cwirsen{at}whoi.edu.

Contribution no. 9695 of the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution.
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 1998, p. 4057-4059, Vol. 64, No. 10
0099-2240/98/$04.00+0
Copyright © 1998, American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.
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