| Title | Aestuariibaculum scopimerae sp. nov., Isolated from the Globular Ghost Crab, Scopimera globosa |
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| Author | Jae-Bong Lee1, Byung-Chun Kim2, Hyangmi Kim3, Kyung Sook Bae3, Jae-Hyeong Yang1, Young-Yull Chun1, Seong-Joon Park4, and Doo-Sang Park3* |
| Address | 1Dokdo Fisheries Research Center, National Fisheries Research and Development Institute, Pohang 791-119, Republic of Korea, 2The Research Institute of Industrial Science, Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea, 3Microbiological Resources Center, KRIBB, Daejeon 305-806, Republic of Korea, 4National Institute of Environmental Research, Inchon 404-708, Republic of Korea |
| Bibliography | Journal of Microbiology, 51(6),736–740, 2013, |
| DOI | 10.1007/s12275-013-3499-5 |
| Key Words | Aestuariibaculum scopimerae, polyphasic analysis |
| Abstract | A Gram-staining-negative, non-motile, catalase- and oxidasepositive bacterium, designated strain I-15T, was isolated from a crab of the Yellow Sea, Korea. On the basis of a 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain I-15T was shown to belong to Bacteroidetes, related to the genus Aestuariibaculum. Sequence similarity between strain I-15T and the only type strain of the genus Aestuariibaculum, Aestuariibaculum suncheonense SC17T, was 96.7%. Strain I-15T 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-15T 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-15T (=KCTC 32459T =JCM 19486T). |