@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65297-0, author = "Lim, Jee-Min and Jeon, Che Ok and Lee, Seung Sik and Park, Dong-Jin and Xu, Li-Hua and Jiang, Cheng-Lin and Kim, Chang-Jin", title = "Reclassification of Salegentibacter catena Ying et al. 2007 as Salinimicrobium catena gen. nov., comb. nov. and description of Salinimicrobium xinjiangense sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from Xinjiang province in China", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2008", volume = "58", number = "2", pages = "438-442", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65297-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65297-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "MP, maximum-parsimony", keywords = "NJ, neighbour-joining", keywords = "ML, maximum-likelihood", abstract = "A Gram-negative, non-motile and moderately halophilic rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain BH206T, was isolated from a saline lake of Xinjiang province in China. The isolate showed catalase-positive and oxidase-negative reactions and did not reduce nitrate. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the isolate was most closely related to [Salegentibacter] catena HY1T with 95.8 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, and formed a tight phyletic group with [Salegentibacter] catena HY1T with a bootstrap value of 99 % within the family Flavobacteriaceae. However, strain BH206T and [Salegentibacter] catena HY1T formed a phyletic lineage distinct from other Salegentibacter species. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of strain BH206T with other related type species were lower than 94.6 %. On the basis of physiological and molecular properties, it is clear that [Salegentibacter] catena should be reclassified in the new genus Salinimicrobium as Salinimicrobium catena gen. nov., comb. nov. (type strain HY1T=CGMCC 1.6101T=JCM 14015T) and that strain BH206T represents a novel species within the genus Salinimicrobium, for which the name Salinimicrobium xinjiangense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Salinimicrobium xinjiangense is BH206T (=KCTC 12883T=DSM 19287T).", }