Lysinibacillus odysseyi
| Lysinibacillus odysseyi | |
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| Scanning electron micrograph of spores of Lysinibacillus odysseyi | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Caryophanaceae |
| Genus: | Lysinibacillus |
| Species: | L. odysseyi |
| Binomial name | |
| Lysinibacillus odysseyi (La Duc et al. 2004) Jung et al. 2012 | |
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Lysinibacillus odysseyi is a species of Gram-positive, aerobic, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacterium. It was originally isolated from the surface of the Mars Odyssey spacecraft during its assembly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and described as Bacillus odysseyi in 2004.[1] The specific epithet odysseyi refers to the Mars Odyssey spacecraft. The type strain is 34hs-1T (= ATCC PTA-4993T = NRRL B-30641T = NBRC 100172T).
The spores possess an exosporium, spore coat, cortex and core and are resistant to desiccation, hydrogen peroxide, ultraviolet radiation and gamma radiation. In the original study, spores showed 100% survival following desiccation, 26% survival following hydrogen-peroxide exposure, 10% survival at an ultraviolet dose of 660 J m−2, and 0.4% survival following gamma irradiation.[1]
In 2012, the species was transferred to the genus Lysinibacillus as Lysinibacillus odysseyi on the basis of phylogenetic and phenotypic analyses.[2]
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References
- 1 2 La Duc, Myron T.; Satomi, Masataka; Venkateswaran, Kasthuri (2004). "Bacillus odysseyi sp. nov., a round-spore-forming bacillus isolated from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (1): 195–201. Bibcode:2004IJSEM..54..195D. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02747-0. PMID 14742480.
- ↑ Jung, Min Young; Kim, Joong-Su; Paek, Woon Kee; Styrak, Igor; Park, In-Soon; Sin, Yeseul; Paek, Jayoung; Park, Keun Ae; Kim, Hongik; Kim, Hong Lim; Chang, Young-Hyo (2012). "Description of Lysinibacillus sinduriensis sp. nov., and transfer of Bacillus massiliensis and Bacillus odysseyi to the genus Lysinibacillus as Lysinibacillus massiliensis comb. nov. and Lysinibacillus odysseyi comb. nov. with emended description of the genus Lysinibacillus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Pt 10): 2347–2355. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.033837-0. PMID 22140163.