Table 1. Classification and general features of Parvibaculum lavamentivorans DS-1^T.

MIGS ID	Property	Term	Evidence codea
	Current classification	Domain Bacteria	TAS [21]
	Phylum	Proteobacteria	TAS [22]
	Class	Alphaproteobacteria	TAS [23,24]
	Order	Rhizobiales	TAS [23,25]
	Family	Rhodobiaceae	TAS [23,26]
	Genus	Parvibaculum	TAS [3]
	Species	Parvibaculum lavamentivorans	TAS [3]
		Type strain DS-1
	Gram stain	negative	TAS [3]
	Cell shape	small rod	TAS [3]
	Motility	motile	TAS [3]
	Sporulation	non-sporulating	TAS [3]
	Temperature range	mesophile	TAS [3]
	Optimum temperature	30 ºC	TAS [3]
	Carbon source	acetate, ethanol, pyruvate, succinate, alkanes (C8 – C16),      various anionic and non-ionic surfactants	TAS [2,3,5,7]
	Energy source	chemoorganotroph	TAS [3]
	Terminal electron receptor	molecular oxygen	TAS [3]
MIGS-6	Habitat	aerobic habitat	TAS [2,27]
MIGS-6.3	Salinity	0 – 3% NaCl	TAS [3]
MIGS-22	Oxygen requirement	aerobic	TAS [3]
MIGS-15	Biotic relationship	free-living	TAS [3]
MIGS-14	Pathogenicity	none	TAS [3]
MIGS-4	Geographic location	isolated from a surfactant-degrading laboratory trickling filter that      was inoculated with sludge of an industrial sewage treatment      plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany	TAS [2]
MIGS-5	Sample collection time	1999	TAS [2]
MIGS-4.1	Latitude	49.48	TAS [2]
MIGS-4.2	Longitude	8.44	TAS [2]
MIGS-4.3	Depth
MIGS-4.4	Altitude	96 m	TAS [2]

a) Evidence codes - IDA: Inferred from Direct Assay; TAS: Traceable Author Statement (i.e., a direct report exists in the literature); NAS: Non-traceable Author Statement (i.e., not directly observed for the living, isolated sample, but based on a generally accepted property for the species, or anecdotal evidence). These evidence codes are from of the Gene Ontology project [28].