@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-46-4-926, author = "VANCANNEYT, M. and SEGERS, P. and TORCK, U. and HOSTE, B. and BERNARDET, J.-F. and VANDAMME, P. and KERSTERS, K.", title = "Reclassification of Flavobacterium odoratum (Stutzer 1929) Strains to a New Genus, Myroides, as Myroides odoratus comb. nov. and Myroides odoratimimus sp. nov.", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "1996", volume = "46", number = "4", pages = "926-932", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-4-926", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-46-4-926", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "On the basis of genotypic, chemotaxonomic, and phenotypic data, Flavobacterium odoratum was excluded from the emended genus Flavobacterium. In the present study, the known heterogeneity within this species was examined by a polyphasic approach that included DNA-rRNA hybridizations, a determination of DNA base ratios, DNA-DNA hybridizations, a numerical analysis of whole-cell protein patterns, a determination of cellular fatty acid compositions, and a phenotypic analysis. All of the methods revealed the presence of two distinct species. We propose that F. odoratum strains should be placed in a new genus, the genus Myroides, which comprises two species, Myroides odoratus comb. nov. and Myroides odoratimimus sp. nov.", }