%0 Journal Article %A Somvanshi, Vishal S. %A Lang, Elke %A Schumann, Peter %A Pukall, Rüdiger %A Kroppenstedt, R. M. %A Ganguly, Sudershan %A Stackebrandt, Erko %T Leucobacter iarius sp. nov., in the family Microbacteriaceae %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 4 %P 682-686 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64683-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel Gram-positive bacterium, strain 40T, was isolated in the course of identifying bacteria from infective juveniles of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema thermophilum. Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis, strain 40T was found to be related to the type strains of recognized species of the genus Leucobacter, family Microbacteriaceae. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of strain 40T and Leucobacter albus IAM 14851T, Leucobacter luti LMG 23118T, Leucobacter alluvii LMG 23117T, Leucobacter komagatae DSM 8803T, Leucobacter chromiireducens CIP 108389T and Leucobacter aridicollis CIP 108388T, respectively, were 97.3, 97.5, 97.6, 97.6, 97.6 and 98.5 %. Chemotaxonomic analysis also supported the affiliation of strain 40T to the genus Leucobacter: the major menaquinone was MK-11, the peptidoglycan cross-linkage was of the B-type, the cell wall diamino acid was l-diaminobutyric acid and the major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 (42 %), anteiso-C17 : 0 (34 %) and iso-C16 : 0 (16 %). Based upon the biochemical and genomic analyses, strain 40T is sufficiently distinct from the type strains of recognized Leucobacter species to warrant the description of a novel species, for which the name Leucobacter iarius sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain 40T (=DSM 17402T=CIP 108831T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64683-0