title: Janibacter corallicola sp. nov., isolated from coral in Palau.
abstract: A novel Janibacter species is described on the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and genotypic data. Two bacterial strains were isolated in Palau, which were both Gram-positive, catalase-positive bacteria with meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan. The major menaquinone was MK-8(H(4)). Mycolic acids were not detected. The G+C content of the DNA was 70-71 mol%. Comparative 16S rDNA studies of the two isolated strains revealed that they both belonged to the genus Janibacter. DNA-DNA relatedness data revealed that 04PA2-Co5-61(T) and 02PA-Ca-009 belong to the same species, a new species of the genus Janibacter. From these results, Janibacter corallicola sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain 04PA2-Co5-61(T) (=MBIC 08265(T), DSM 18906(T)).
authors.affiliation: Kitasato Institute for Life Sciences, Kitasato University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Akiko
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kageyama
authors.forename: Yoko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yasumoto-Hirose
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kasai
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shizuri
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Omura
mesh_terms: D000192:Actinomycetales / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D037421:Anthozoa / Q000382:microbiology*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S