TY - JOUR
T1 - Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas, and emended description of Nonlabens tegetincola
AU - Lau, Stanley C.K.
AU - Tsoi, Mandy M.Y.
AU - Li, Xiancui
AU - Plakhotnikova, Ioulia
AU - Dobretsov, Sergey
AU - Wu, Madeline
AU - Wong, Po Keung
AU - Pawlik, Joseph R.
AU - Qian, Pei Yuan
PY - 2006/1
Y1 - 2006/1
N2 - A bacterial strain, UST030701-156T, was isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas. Strain UST030701-156T was orange-pigmented, Gram-negative, rod-shaped with tapered ends, slowly motile by gliding and strictly aerobic. The predominant fatty acids were a15:0, i15:0, i15:0 3-OH, i17:0 3-OH, i17:1ω9c and summed feature 3, comprising i15:0 2-OH and/or 16:1ω7c. MK-6 was the only respiratory quinone. Flexirubin-type pigments were not produced. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences placed UST030701-156T within a distinct lineage in the family Flavobacteriaceae, with 93.3% sequence similarity to the nearest neighbour, Nonlabens tegetincola. The DNA G + C content of UST030701-156T was 41.0 mol% and was much higher than that of N. tegetincola (33.6 mol%). Strain UST030701-156T can be distinguished from other members of the Flavobacteriaceae by means of a number of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic characteristics. It is proposed, therefore, that UST030701-156T represents a novel taxon designated Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is UST030701-156T (= NRRL B-41138T = JCM 13191T). Carbon-source utilization by N. tegetincola was re-examined and an emended description is therefore included.
AB - A bacterial strain, UST030701-156T, was isolated from a marine sponge in the Bahamas. Strain UST030701-156T was orange-pigmented, Gram-negative, rod-shaped with tapered ends, slowly motile by gliding and strictly aerobic. The predominant fatty acids were a15:0, i15:0, i15:0 3-OH, i17:0 3-OH, i17:1ω9c and summed feature 3, comprising i15:0 2-OH and/or 16:1ω7c. MK-6 was the only respiratory quinone. Flexirubin-type pigments were not produced. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences placed UST030701-156T within a distinct lineage in the family Flavobacteriaceae, with 93.3% sequence similarity to the nearest neighbour, Nonlabens tegetincola. The DNA G + C content of UST030701-156T was 41.0 mol% and was much higher than that of N. tegetincola (33.6 mol%). Strain UST030701-156T can be distinguished from other members of the Flavobacteriaceae by means of a number of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic characteristics. It is proposed, therefore, that UST030701-156T represents a novel taxon designated Stenothermobacter spongiae gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is UST030701-156T (= NRRL B-41138T = JCM 13191T). Carbon-source utilization by N. tegetincola was re-examined and an emended description is therefore included.
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U2 - 10.1099/ijs.0.63908-0
DO - 10.1099/ijs.0.63908-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 16403884
AN - SCOPUS:31144450297
SN - 1466-5026
VL - 56
SP - 181
EP - 185
JO - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
JF - International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
IS - 1
M1 - 63908
ER -