RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Ren, Pei-Gen A1 Zhou, Pei-JinYR 2005 T1 Salinibacillus aidingensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salinibacillus kushneri sp. nov., moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from a neutral saline lake in Xin-Jiang, China JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 55 IS 2 SP 949 OP 953 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63287-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Three Gram-positive, moderately halophilic, heterotrophic bacterial strains were isolated from a neutral saline lake in the Xin-Jiang area of China. The strains, designated 8-2T, W11-1 and 25-7T, were motile, spore-forming, aerobic rods and contained meso-diaminopimelic acid in their cell walls. Their DNA G+C contents were 37·4, 37·2 and 39·9 mol%, respectively. The main fatty acids in the cellular membranes of these novel strains were C15 and C17 methyl-branched. No species with validly published names showed 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of more than 95 % with respect to these novel isolates; the most closely related species was a halophilic denitrifier, Bacillus halodenitrificans (94·6 %). Polyphasic taxonomic studies revealed that these strains belong to the Bacillaceae and are distantly related to other genera of the family. It is proposed that a new genus, Salinibacillus, should be created, with Salinibacillus aidingensis (type strain, 25-7T=AS 1.3565T=JCM 12389T) as the type species. Another species, Salinibacillus kushneri, is also proposed, with 8-2T (=AS 1.3566T=JCM 12390T) as the type strain., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63287-0