Species code:	VIBPA
Taxonomy:	Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Gammaproteobacteria; Vibrionales; Vibrionaceae; Vibrio (TaxID: 670) [NEWT/ NCBI]
Description:	Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a major causative agent of gastroenteritis, particularly in areas with high seafood consumption. This organism naturally inhabits marine and estuarine environments. It seems suited to various lifestyles: a planktonic, free-swimming state; a sessile existence attached to shellfish in a commensal relation, to the bottoms of boats, or to other surfaces in the ocean; or in host organisms. It has several cell types such as the swimmer cell and the swarmer cell, and it can exist in a viable but non-culturable state.
Properties:	Presence of flagella: Yes Interaction: Animal pathogen in Mammalia; Animal commensal in Shellfish Number of membranes: 2 Number of inteins:0
Statistics:	Number of VIBPA entries in the UniProt Knowledgebase: 4821 (778 in UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot + 4043 in UniProtKB/TrEMBL)

Genome structure:	• Chromosome 1 EMBL accession number BA000031 (circular; 3,288,558 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews). • Chromosome 2 EMBL accession number BA000032 (circular; 1,877,212 bp) (download entry) (download Genome Reviews).
Reference(s):	[1] MEDLINE=22508454; PubMed=12620739; [ NCBI , EBI , Israel , Japan ] Makino K., Oshima K., Kurokawa K., Yokoyama K., Uda T., Tagomori K., Iijima Y., Najima M., Nakano M., Yamashita A., Kubota Y., Kimura S., Yasunaga T., Honda T., Shinagawa H., Hattori M., Iida T. ; "Genome sequence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: a pathogenic mechanism distinct from that of V. cholerae."; Lancet 361:743-749(2003).
Web links:	Official genome site(s): http://genome.gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp/bacteria/vpara/index.html Other web sites: CBS: http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/GenomeAtlas/show-genus.php?kingdom=Bacteria&GLgenus=Vibrio&GLspecies=parahaemolyticus&GLstrain=RIMD2210633 Entrez Genome Project: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=genomeprj&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=txid223926%5Borgn%5D GIB (DDBJ): http://gib.genes.nig.ac.jp/single/index.php?spid=Vpar_O3K6_RIMD2210633 Karyn's Genomes: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can/genomes/bacteria/Vibrio_parahaemolyticus.html NMPDR: http://www.nmpdr.org/FIG/seedviewer.cgi?pattern=223926.1;page=SearchResult TIGR CMR: http://cmr.tigr.org/tigr-scripts/CMR/GenomePage.cgi?database=ntvp01  EBI Proteome Analysis page

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