title: Transfer of Blastobacter natatorius (Sly 1985) to the genus Blastomonas gen. nov. as Blastomonas natatoria comb. nov.
abstract: The budding bacterium Blastobacter natatorius belongs to the alpha-4 group of the Proteobacteria and clusters phylogenetically on a deep branch with Sphingomonas capsulata, with which it shares 93.9% 16S rRNA sequence similarity. On phylogenetic, phenotypic, and chemotaxonomic grounds a proposal is made to transfer B. natatorius to the genus Blastomonas gen. nov. as Blastomonas natatoria comb. nov.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. sly@biosci.uq.oz.au
authors.forename: L I
authors.initials: LI
authors.lastname: Sly
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cahill
mesh_terms: D006088:Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S