title: Kordia periserrulae sp. nov., isolated from a marine polychaete Periserrula leucophryna, and emended description of the genus Kordia.
abstract: A Gram-negative, chemoheterotrophic, yellow-pigmented, non-motile, flexirubin-negative, facultatively anaerobic bacterium, designated strain IMCC1412(T), was isolated from a marine polychaete Periserrula leucophryna inhabiting a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea, Korea. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain IMCC1412(T) was most closely related to Kordia algicida, with a sequence similarity of 96.7 %, but only distantly related to other species in the family Flavobacteriaceae (<92 % similarity). The G+C content of the DNA was 37.3 mol%. The strain contained MK-6 as the major respiratory quinone and phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified aminolipids and unidentified polar lipids as the major polar lipids. On the basis of phylogenetic distinctiveness and differential phenotypic characteristics, strain IMCC1412(T) ( = KACC 14311(T) = KCTC 22801(T) = NBRC 106077(T)) should be assigned to the genus Kordia as the type strain of a novel species, for which the name Kordia periserrulae sp. nov. is proposed. An emended description of the genus Kordia is also presented.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ahyoung
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Hyun-Myung
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Seung-Jo
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Ocean Sciences, Inha University, Incheon 402-751, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jang-Cheon
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D041965:Flavobacteriaceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000032:analysis; D010802:Phylogeny; D010860:Pigments, Biological / Q000378:metabolism; D011077:Polychaeta / Q000382:microbiology*; D011809:Quinones / Q000032:analysis; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D056910:Republic of Korea; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D004275:DNA, Ribosomal; D010743:Phospholipids; D010860:Pigments, Biological; D011809:Quinones; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S