Polynucleobacter yangtzensis

Polynucleobacter yangtzensis is an aerobic, chemo-organotrophic, catalase- and oxidase-positive, sometimes motile, free-living bacterium of the genus Polynucleobacter, isolated from Yangtze River in the City of Nanjing (China). The species represents planktonic bacteria (bacterioplankton) dwelling in alkaline freshwater systems. The species name refers to the origin of the type strain.

Polynucleobacter yangtzensis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Burkholderiaceae
Genus:	Polynucleobacter
Species:	P. yangtzensis
Binomial name
Polynucleobacter yangtzensis Hahn et al. 2016[1]
Type strain
MWH-JaK3
Synonyms
P. necessarius subsp. asymbioticus, Polynucleobacter sp. MWH-JaK3