title: Identification of Comamonas species using 16S rRNA gene sequence.
abstract: A bacterial strain Bz02 was isolated from a water sample collected from river Gomti at the Indian city of Lucknow. We characterized the strain using 16S rRNA sequence. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the strain formed a monophyletic clade with members of the genus Comamonas. The closest phylogenetic relative was Comamonas testosteroni with 95% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. It is proposed that the identified strain Bz02 be assigned as the type strain of a species of the genus Comamonas (Comamonas sp Bz02) based on 16S rRNA gene sequence search in Ribosomal Database Project, small subunit rRNA and large subunit rRNA databases together with the phylogenetic tree analysis. The sequence is deposted in GenBank with the accession number FJ211417.
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Division, BIOBRAINZ, 566/29 J, Jai Prakash Nagar, Alambagh, Lucknow 226005, U.P., India.
authors.forename: Vimlesh
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.forename: Satya
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prakash
authors.forename: Shipra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Srivastava
authors.forename: Praveen Chandra
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Vijayta
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.forename: Vaishali
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Basu
authors.forename: Anil Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Rawat