RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Shivaji, S. A1 Bhadra, Bhaskar A1 Rao, R. Sreenivas A1 Chaturvedi, Preeti A1 Pindi, Pavan Kumar A1 Raghukumar, ChandralataYR 2007 T1 Microbacterium indicum sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea sediment sample from the Chagos Trench, Indian Ocean JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 8 SP 1819 OP 1822 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64782-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Two bacterial strains, BBH6T and BBH9, were isolated from a deep-sea sediment sample collected from the Chagos Trench, Indian Ocean, at a depth of 5904 m. The two strains were closely related in their 16S rRNA gene sequences (99.7 %), belonged to one genomic species and were virtually identical at the phenotypic level. Microbacterium barkeri DSM 20145T was the nearest phylogenetic neighbour to the new isolates, with 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity levels of 97.2–97.4 %. The new isolates exhibited levels of DNA–DNA relatedness of 32–34 % to M. barkeri and differed from it in a number of phenotypic characteristics. Therefore, it is suggested that strains BBH6T and BBH9 represent a novel species of the genus Microbacterium, for which the name Microbacterium indicum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BBH6T (=LMG 23459T=IAM 15355T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64782-0