title: Bacillus cavernaesp. nov. isolated from cave soil.
abstract: A Gram-stain-positive, spore-forming, motile, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain L5T, was isolated from soil of Tenglong cave, China. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain L5Twas related most closely toBacillus asahiiMA001T(96.5 %) (the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity),Bacillus kribbensisBT080T(96.4 %) andBacillus desertiZLD-8T(96.2 %). The DNA G+C content of strain L5Twas 45.6 mol%. The major menaquinone was MK-7. The major fatty acids were iso-C14 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0and iso-C16 : 0, and the major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. The diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan wasmeso-diaminopimelic acid. In addition, strain L5Thad different characteristics compared with the otherBacillusstrains such as pink colony colour, low growth temperature and low nutrient requirement. The results indicate that strain L5Trepresents a novel species of the genusBacillus, for which the nameBacillus cavernaesp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is L5T( = KCTC 33637T= CCTCC AB 2015055T).
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology,College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PRChina.
authors.forename: Liling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology,College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PRChina.
authors.forename: Dongmei
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology,College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PRChina.
authors.forename: Xuelian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology,College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PRChina.
authors.forename: Gejiao
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: National Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology,College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, 430070, PRChina.
authors.forename: Mingshun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li