title: Ascidiaceihabitans donghaensis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the golden sea squirt Halocynthia aurantium.
abstract: A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and coccoid, ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated RSS1-M3(T), was isolated from a golden sea squirt (Halocynthia aurantium) collected from the East Sea, South Korea. Strain RSS1-M3(T) grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0-8.0 and in presence of 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain RSS1-M3(T) exhibited the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (96.55 %) to the type strain of Pelagicola litoralis. Neighbour-joining and maximum-likelihood phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain RSS1-M3(T) clustered with the type strains, or proposed type strains, of Planktotalea frisia, Pacificibacter maritimus, Roseovarius marinus and Halocynthiibacter namhaensis, showing sequence similarity of 94.88-96.32 %. Strain RSS1-M3(T) contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The polar lipid profile of strain RSS1-M3(T), containing phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, one unidentified aminolipid and one unidentified lipid as major components, could be distinguished from those of the phylogenetically related genera. The DNA G+C content of strain RSS1-M3(T) was 55.8 mol%. On the basis of the phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic properties, strain RSS1-M3(T) is considered to represent a novel species of a new genus within the class Alphaproteobacteria, for which the name Ascidiaceihabitans donghaensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RSS1-M3(T) ( = KCTC 42118(T) = CECT 8599(T)).
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Division, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Gijang, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Ok
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sooyeon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Division, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Gijang, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Bo-Hye
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Nam
authors.affiliation: East Sea Fisheries Research Institute, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Gangneung 210-861, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Chu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ja-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Division, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Gijang, Busan 619-705, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dong-Gyun
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jung-Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yoon
mesh_terms: D020561:Alphaproteobacteria / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D000818:Animals; D015373:Bacterial Typing Techniques; D001482:Base Composition; D004269:DNA, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000235:genetics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014451:Ubiquinone / Q000737:chemistry; D014561:Urochordata / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D004269:DNA, Bacterial; D005227:Fatty Acids; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S; D014451:Ubiquinone; C025204:Ubiquinone Q2