@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.044289-0, author = "Park, Seong Chan and Choe, Han Na and Baik, Keun Sik and Seong, Chi Nam", title = "Aquimarina gracilis sp. nov., isolated from the gut microflora of a mussel, Mytilus coruscus, and emended description of Aquimarina spongiae", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2013", volume = "63", number = "Pt_5", pages = "1782-1787", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.044289-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.044289-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "An orange-coloured and slender rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain PSC32T, was isolated from the gut microflora of a mussel collected from Gwangyang Bay, South Sea (Republic of Korea). Cells were Gram-reaction-negative, strictly aerobic, and catalase- and oxidase-positive. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, iso-C15 : 1 G and iso-C15 : 0 3-OH. The only isoprenoid quinone of strain PSC32T was MK-6 and the DNA G+C content was 36.9 mol%. Phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified aminolipid and two unidentified polar lipids were found as major polar lipids. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain PSC32T forms an evolutionary lineage within the genus Aquimarina and is closely related to Aquimarina spongiae A6T (97.0 % similarity) and to other members of the genus Aquimarina (94.4–96.5 %). Genomic DNA–DNA relatedness between strain PSC32T and A. spongiae A6T was 40.7 %. A number of phenotypic characteristics distinguished strain PSC32T from described members of the genus Aquimarina . On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain PSC32T represents a novel species, for which the name Aquimarina gracilis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is PSC32T ( = KCTC 23301T = JCM 17453T). An emended description of Aquimarina spongiae is given.", }