title: Ferrimonas senticii sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from the mucus of a puffer fish caught in Kaneohe Bay, Hawai'i.
abstract: A novel species, strain P2S11T, was isolated from the mucus of a puffer fish caught off the coast of Kaneohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i. A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the novel strain was most closely related to Ferrimonas marina DSM 16917T and Ferrimonas balearica DSM 9799T with 93.5% and 82.9% sequence similarities, respectively, which established the novel strain as belonging to the genus Ferrimonas. The strain formed off-white coloured colonies on marine agar and cells were Gram-negative, non-motile rods. H2S was produced when strain P2S11T was grown on TSI medium with added salt. Strain P2S11T had a DNA G+C content of 54.9 mol% and the dominant fatty acids were C16:1omega9c, C16:0 and C17:1omega8c. On the basis of this polyphasic study, strain P2S11T (=ATCC BAA-1480T=DSM 18821T) represents a novel species of the genus Ferrimonas, for which the name Ferrimonas senticii sp. nov. is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1955 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1955 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
authors.forename: Renee M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Harada
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1955 East West Road, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
authors.forename: Qing X
authors.initials: QX
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D027081:DNA Gyrase / Q000235:genetics; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000032:analysis; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000032:analysis; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D020563:Gammaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D020459:Genes, rRNA; D006254:Hawaii; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009093:Mucus / Q000382:microbiology*; D010641:Phenotype; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D013045:Species Specificity; D023721:Tetraodontiformes / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D027081:DNA Gyrase