title: Deinococcus mumbaiensis Shashidhar and Bandekar 2006 is a later heterotypic synonym of Deinococcus ficus Lai et al. 2006.
abstract: Deinococcus mumbaiensis DSM 17424(T) was compared with Deinococcus ficus CC-FR2-10(T) to clarify the taxonomic relationship between the two species. 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons demonstrated that these strains share 99.5 % sequence similarity. Investigation of fatty acid patterns and substrate utilization profiles displayed no striking differences between the type strains of the two species. DNA-DNA hybridizations between the two strains showed 75.4 % (76.6 %) relatedness. Therefore, the reclassification of Deinococcus mumbaiensis as a later heterotypic synonym of Deinococcus ficus is proposed, based upon the estimated phylogenetic position derived from 16S rRNA gene sequence data, fatty acid and biochemical data and DNA-DNA hybridization results.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, D-35392 Giessen, Germany. peter.kaempfer@umwelt.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kämpfer
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification; D034301:Deinococcus / Q000737:chemistry / Q000145:classification*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000032:analysis; D030681:Ficus / Q000382:microbiology; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids