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Abstract

Five Gram-negative, motile, aerobic to microaerophilic spirilla were isolated from various depths of the hypersaline, heliothermal and meromictic Ekho Lake (East Antarctica). The strains are oxidase- and catalase-positive, metabolize a variety of sugars and carboxylic acids and have an absolute requirement for sodium ions. The predominant fatty acids of the organisms are C 7, C and C 7, with C 3-OH, C 3-OH, C 3-OH, C 3-OH, C 3-OH and C present in smaller amounts. The main polar lipids are diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylmonomethylamine. The DNA base composition of the strains is 54–55 mol% G+C. 16S rRNA gene sequence comparisons show that the isolates are related to the genera , , , and in the -. Morphological, physiological and genotypic differences from these previously described genera support the description of a novel genus and species, gen. nov., sp. nov. The type strain is EL-105 (=DSM 12546=CECT 5721).

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