%0 Journal Article %A Weon, Hang-Yeon %A Kim, Byung-Yong %A Hong, Seung-Beom %A Joa, Jae-Ho %A Nam, Sang-Sik %A Lee, Ki Hwan %A Kwon, Soon-Wo %T Skermanella aerolata sp. nov., isolated from air, and emended description of the genus Skermanella %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 7 %P 1539-1542 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64676-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A light-pink-coloured bacterium, designated strain 5416T-32T, was isolated from an air sample in Korea. Cells of the strain were strictly aerobic, Gram-negative, motile (single polar or subpolar flagellum) and rod-shaped. Optimal growth occurred at 25–30 °C and at pH 6.0–7.0. The major quinones were Q-10 and Q-8. The major fatty acids were C18 : 1 ω7c (53.8 %) and C16 : 0 (15.9 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 65.0 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain 5416T-32T was most closely related to Skermanella parooensis, with a similarity of 96.2 %, but relatively low sequence similarities (<92 %) were found with respect to other species with validly published names held in GenBank. Phenotypic and genotypic analyses indicated that strain 5416T-32T could not be assigned to any recognized species. Therefore strain 5416T-32T represents a novel species of the genus Skermanella, for which the name Skermanella aerolata sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 5416T-32T (=KACC 11604T=DSM 18479T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64676-0