Winogradskyella exilis sp. nov., isolated from the starfish Stellaster equestris, and emended description of the genus Winogradskyella

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Title: Winogradskyella exilis sp. nov., isolated from the starfish Stellaster equestris, and emended description of the genus Winogradskyella
Author(s): Ivanova, Elena P.; Christen, Richard; Gorshkova, Nataliya M.; Zhukova, Natalia V.; Kurilenko, Valeriya; Crawford, Russell J.; Mikhailov, Valery V.
Abstract: A pale yellowish pigmented non motile strain 022-2-26T was isolated from a starfish Stellaster equestris. Gram-negative, short rod-shaped, nonmotile bacterium was chemoorganotrophic, alkalitolerant, and mesophilic. The type strain 022-2-26T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone. The major cellular fatty acids were iso-15:0, iso-15:1, 15:0, iso-15:0-2OH and iso-17:0-3OH (together representing 86.4% of the total fatty acids). The DNA base composition was 30.1 mol% GC. A 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain 022-2-26T was determined and phylogenetic analyses revealed that 022-2-26T formed a robust clade (confirmed by neighbor-joining, parsimony and maximum-likelihood algorithms and 95% of bootstrap replication) with species of the genus Winogradskyella. The closest related species was Winogradskyella poriferorum UST030701-295T showing a similarity of 96% (59 differences between sequences). On the basis of the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic evidence, it is suggested that the bacteria be classified as a novel species, Winogradskyella exilia sp. nov. The type strain is 022-2-26T (KMM 6013T = CIP 109976T).
Publication type: Journal article
Source: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, Vol. 60, no. 7 (Jul 2010), pp. 1577-1580
Publication year: 2010
FOR Code(s): 0603 Evolutionary Biology; 0605 Microbiology; 1108 Medical Microbiology
Keyword(s): Bacterium; Star fish; Stellaster equestris; Winogradskyella exilia sp. nov
Publisher: Society for General Microbiology
ISSN: 1466-5026
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.012476-0
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