Biology of the Marine Enterobacteria: Genera Beneckea and Photobacterium

INTRODUCTION 39 AFFINITY OF THE MARINE FACULTATIVE ANAEROBES TO THE TERRESTRIAL ENTEROBACTERIA ..... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 40 THE Na+ REQUIREMENT OF MARINE ENTEROBACTERIA 41 TAXONOMIC CHARACTERIZATION O F THE MARINE ENTEROBACTERIA 42 Methods 0/ Speciation 42 Generic Assignments ... . . . ... . ... . .... 43 THE GENUS BENECKEA 47 General Properties .. .. . . 47 Flagellation 48 Species of the Genus Beneckea . . . .. ........ S2 B. harveyi DNA homology group 52 B. splendida DNA homology group 53 Other species oj Beneckea S3 Miscellaneous strains oj Beneckea . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... 54