title: Balneola vulgaris gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes from the north-western Mediterranean Sea.
abstract: A novel aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium, named 13IX/A01/164(T), was isolated from surface waters in the coastal north-western Mediterranean Sea. Cells were motile, straight rods, 2.5 mum long and 0.2 mum wide, and formed orange colonies on marine agar medium. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain 13IX/A01/164(T) was 42 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence placed the strain in the phylum Bacteroidetes within the family Crenotrichaceae. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison and physiological and biochemical characteristics, this isolate represents a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Balneola vulgaris gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Balneola vulgaris is 13IX/A01/164(T) (=DSM 17893(T)=CIP 109092(T)=OOB 256(T)).
authors.affiliation: Observatoire Océanologique, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), CNRS UMR 7621, BP44, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Urios
authors.affiliation: Observatoire Océanologique, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), CNRS UMR 7621, BP44, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Agogué
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmes, UMR 6197, IFREMER, Centre de Brest, BP70, 29280 Plouzané, France.
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lesongeur
authors.affiliation: DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany.
authors.forename: Erko
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stackebrandt
authors.affiliation: Observatoire Océanologique, Laboratoire d'Océanographie Biologique de Banyuls, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), CNRS UMR 7621, BP44, 66651 Banyuls-sur-Mer Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lebaron
mesh_terms: D000362:Agar; D041963:Bacteroidetes / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003470:Culture Media; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D008124:Locomotion; D008522:Mediterranean Sea; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D010802:Phylogeny; D012329:RNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D014871:Water Microbiology
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media; D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D012329:RNA, Bacterial; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D000362:Agar