Photorhabdus khanii
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacteriales, Family Morganellaceae, Genus Photorhabdus,
Photorhabdus khanii (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018.

Basonym: Photorhabdus temperata subsp. khanii Tailliez et al. 2010.
Gram-negative rods.
Maximum temperature for growth is 35-36 ºC in Luria-Bertani broth. Luminescence is
produced. Colonies are pigmented.
Symbiotically associated with the nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora.
Undetermined.
  1. Machado RAR, Wuthrich D, Kuhnert P, Arce CCM, Thonen L, Ruiz C, Zhang X, Robert CAM, Karimi J, Kamali S, et al. Whole-genome-
    based revisit of Photorhabdus phylogeny: proposal for the elevation of most Photorhabdus subspecies to the species level and
    description of one novel species Photorhabdus bodei sp. nov., and one novel subspecies Photorhabdus laumondii subsp. clarkei
    subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2664-2681.
  2. Tailliez P, Laroui C, Ginibre N, Paule A, Pages S, Boemare N. Phylogeny of Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus based on universally
    conserved protein-coding sequences and implications for the taxonomy of these two genera. Proposal of new taxa: X. vietnamensis
    sp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis subsp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. hainanensis subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp.
    khanii subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. tasmaniensis subsp. nov., and the reclassification of P. luminescens subsp. thracensis as
    P. temperata subsp. thracensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1921-1937.
Positive results for indole production, acid production from  salicin and aesculin.
Can assimilate myo-inositol.

Negative results for acid production from L-fucose.
No assimilation of cis-aconitate .
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