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Abstract
An aerobic, halotolerant, Gram-negative bacterium was isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius and subjected to taxonomic characterization. The strain, designated KMM 6042T, was rod-shaped, motile and yellow-pigmented. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the strain was most closely related to the type strain of Altererythrobacter dongtanensis , and the level of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between the two was 99.0 %. However, the DNA–DNA relatedness between the two strains was 34.4±7.6 %. Physiological and chemotaxonomic properties clearly distinguished the novel strain from other species of the genus Altererythrobacter . It is thus evident from the phylogenetic and phenotypic analyses that strain KMM 6042T merits recognition as a novel species of the genus Altererythrobacter , for which the name Altererythrobacter troitsensis sp. nov. (type strain, KMM 6042T = KCTC 12303T = JCM 17037T) is proposed.
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Funding
- Project on Survey and Excavation of Korean Indigenous Species of the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR)
- Ministry of Environment, Korean Government
- Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Award 09-III-A-06-228))
- Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences ‘Molecular and Cell Biology’
- Federal Agency for Science and Innovations of the Russian Federation (Award 02.518.11.7169)
- Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology (KRIBB) Research Initiative