title: Aliisedimentitalea scapharcae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from ark shell Scapharca broughtonii.
abstract: A Gram-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, motile and ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated MA2-16(T), was isolated from ark shell (Scapharca broughtonii) collected from the South Sea, South Korea. Strain MA2-16(T) was found to grow optimally at 30°C, at pH 7.0-8.0 and in the presence of 2.0% (w/v) NaCl. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain MA2-16(T) clustered with the type strain of Sedimentitalea nanhaiensis. The novel strain exhibited a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity value of 97.1% to the type strain of S. nanhaiensis. In the neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on gyrB sequences, strain MA2-16(T) formed an evolutionary lineage independent of those of other taxa. Strain MA2-16(T) contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18:1 ω7c and 11-methyl C18:1 ω7c as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids of strain MA2-16(T) were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified aminolipid and an unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain MA2-16(T) was 57.7 mol% and its DNA-DNA relatedness values with the type strains of S. nanhaiensis and some phylogenetically related species of the genera Leisingera and Phaeobacter were 13-24%. On the basis of the data presented, strain MA2-16(T) is considered to represent a novel genus and novel species within the family Rhodobacteraceae, for which the name Aliisedimentitalea scapharcae gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MA2-16(T) (=KCTC 42119(T) =CECT 8598(T)).
authors.affiliation: Biotechnology Research Division, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute (NFRDI), Busan, 619-705, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Young-Ok
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sooyeon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Bo-Hye
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Nam
authors.forename: Dong-Gyun
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sung-Min
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Won
authors.forename: Ji-Min
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Park
authors.forename: Jung-Hoon
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Yoon
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006088:Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000145:classification*; D056910:Republic of Korea; D041902:Rhodobacteraceae / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics; D049894:Scapharca / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S