title: Aestuariibaculum scopimerae sp. nov., isolated from the globular ghost crab, Scopimera globosa.
abstract: A Gram-staining-negative, non-motile, catalase- and oxidasepositive bacterium, designated strain I-15(T), was isolated from a crab of the Yellow Sea, Korea. On the basis of a 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain I-15(T) was shown to belong to Bacteroidetes, related to the genus Aestuariibaculum. Sequence similarity between strain I-15(T) and the only type strain of the genus Aestuariibaculum, Aestuariibaculum suncheonense SC17(T), was 96.7%. Strain I-15(T) grew at 0.5-6.0% (w/v) NaCl, at 10-42°C and at pH 4.5-8.0. It could hydrolyze starch and Tweens 80. Menaquinone-6 was the only respiratory quinone, and summed features 3 (C16:1 ω7c/C16:1 ω6c) (16.4%), iso-C15:0 (15.6%), and iso-C15:1 G (12.6%) were the major cellular fatty acids. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, two unidentified aminolipids and two unidentified lipids. The DNA G+C content was 39.0 mol%. Polyphasic data allowed genotypic and phenotypic distinction of strain I-15(T) from the only validly published Aestuariibaculum species. Therefore, the organism is considered a novel species of the genus Aestuariibaculum, for which the name Aestuariibaculum scopimerae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is I-15(T) (=KCTC 32459(T) =JCM 19486(T)).
authors.affiliation: Dokdo Fisheries Research Center, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Pohang, 791-119, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jae-Bong
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Byung-Chun
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyangmi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kyung Sook
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Bae
authors.forename: Jae-Hyeong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Young-Yull
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Chun
authors.forename: Seong-Joon
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Doo-Sang
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001482:Base Composition; D003386:Brachyura / Q000382:microbiology*; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D041965:Flavobacteriaceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000378:metabolism; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S