TABLE 1.
Bacteria detected in snow samples from the Tateyama Mountains
| Nearest phylogenetic neighbor (GenBank accession no.)c | Bacterial group | Contribution (%) to whole bacterial flora (% identity) in indicated month
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| March | June | August | ||
| Corynebacterium propinquum (X81917) | Actinobacteria | 3.0 (99.8) | ||
| Cryobacterium psychrophilum (AJ544063)a | Actinobacteria | 6.1 (98.8) | 7.3 (98.8) | 8.3 (98.8) |
| Propionibacterium acnes (AB097215) | Actinobacteria | 22.7 (99.4) | ||
| Tsukamurella inchonensis (AF283282) | Actinobacteria | 3.0 (96.6) | ||
| Enterococcus raffinosus (AJ301838) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 4.5 (99.4) | ||
| Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius (AY137585) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 4.5 (99.6) | ||
| Staphylococcus aureus (L37597) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 3.0 (99.8) | ||
| Streptococcus mitis bv. 2 (AY005045) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 4.5 (99.8) | ||
| Streptococcus salivarius (AY188352) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 12.1 (99.8) | ||
| Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius (AY137584) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 4.2 (99.4) | ||
| Streptococcus pneumoniae (AY281083) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 4.5 (99.6) | ||
| Thermoanaerobacterium polysaccharolyticum (U40229) | Bacillus/Clostridium group | 3.0 (79.4) | 1.0 (79.4) | |
| Flavobacterium mizutaii (AJ438175) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 2.3 (92.0) | ||
| Flexibacter filiformis (AB078049) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 3.0 (93.2) | ||
| Flexibacter japonensis (AB078055) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 5.3 (93.0) | ||
| Flexibacter sp. strain MDA2495 (AY238335) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 1.5 (90.9) | ||
| Sphingobacterium spiritivorum (AJ459411) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 6.1 (92.6) | ||
| Taxeobacter ocellatus (Y18835) | Flexibacter-Cytophaga-Bacteroides | 7.3 (95.4) | 17.4 (95.0) | |
| Rhodopseudomonas rhenobacensis (AB087719) | α-Proteobacteria | 10.6 (98.8) | ||
| Aquaspirillum arcticum (AB074523) | β-Proteobacteria | 2.1 (98.2) | ||
| Aquaspirillum autotrophicum (AB074524) | β-Proteobacteria | 1.0 (97.0) | ||
| Burkholderia sp. strain N3P2 (U37344) | β-Proteobacteria | 13.5 (99.0) | ||
| Burkholderia sp. strain SE-10 (AY568514) | β-Proteobacteria | 4.2 (95.8) | 8.3 (90.4) | |
| Chromobacterium violaceum (AY117554) | β-Proteobacteria | 3.0 (96.8) | ||
| Glacier bacterium FXSI (AY315177) | β-Proteobacteria | 1.0 (97.0) | ||
| Janthinobacterium lividum (Y08846)b | β-Proteobacteria | 34.4 (98.6) | 3.0 (98.6) | |
| Leptothrix cholodnii (X97070) | β-Proteobacteria | 3.0 (97.2) | ||
| Rubrivivax gelatinosus (AB016167) | β-Proteobacteria | 3.8 (97.2) | ||
| Variovorax paradoxus (AY169432)b | β-Proteobacteria | 11.5 (99.0) | 34.8 (99.0) | |
| Bacterium SG-3 (AF548381) | γ-Proteobacteria | 3.0 (85.9) | ||
| Pseudomonas sp. strain Ant9 (AF184219) | γ-Proteobacteria | 9.4 (99.4) | ||
| Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (AJ293464) | γ-Proteobacteria | 3.1 (99.8) | ||
| Escherichia coli (J01859) | γ-Proteobacteria | 1.5 (99.8) | ||
| Psychrobacter meningitidis (AY057116) | γ-Proteobacteria | 9.1 (98.0) | ||
| Rahnella sp. strain 0011 836 (AJ415576) | γ-Proteobacteria | 3.0 (99.4) | ||
| Terrahaemophilus aromaticivorans (AB098612) | γ-Proteobacteria | 1.5 (99.4) | ||
a
Psychrophilic bacterium detected in snow samples from all samples.
b
Psychrotrophic bacteria detected in snow samples from both June and August.
c
Underlining indicates species examined by real-time PCR for Fig. 2A.