Table 2.

Table 2.

Major fatty acid compositions (%) of type strains of species of the genus Methylobacterium that are closely related to the novel strains investigated Taxa: 1, strain C15T; 2, strain C44; 3, M. organophilum LMG 6083T; 4, M. jeotgali S2R03-9T; 5, M. phyllosphaerae DSM 19779T; 6, M. oryzae DSM 18207T; 7, M. fujisawaense DSM 5686T; 8, M. marchantiae JT1T. All data were obtained comparatively in this study.
Fatty acid	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
anteiso-C15 : 0	1.7
C16 : 0	3.9	3.5	3.2	3.4	5.0	5.0	4.8	6.2
C18 : 0	0.9	2.7	4.6	3.4	3.2	5.4	2.7	1.5
C18 : 1ω7c*	81.3	76.6	89.5	89.6	87.2	85.1	86.5	74.8
Summed feature 3†	8.4	17.3			2.4		2.7	15.1
Summed feature 2†	1.8		2.8	3.7				2.5
Unknown 14.263‡					2.2	4.6	3.3
Unknown 14.959‡	2.1
*For unsaturated fatty acids, the position of the double bond is located by counting from the methyl (ω) end of the carbon chain. †Summed features are groups of two or three fatty acids that cannot be separated by GLC with the MIDI system. Summed feature 2 contained one or more of the fatty acids iso-C16 : 1 I and C14 : 0 3-OH. Summed feature 3 contained one or more of the fatty acids C16 : 1ω7c and iso-C15 : 0 2-OH. ‡The unknown fatty acids have no name listed in the peak library file of the MIDI system and therefore cannot be identified.