@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65838-0, author = "Yu, Yong and Xin, Yu-Hua and Liu, Hong-Can and Chen, Bo and Sheng, Jun and Chi, Zhen-Ming and Zhou, Pei-Jin and Zhang, De-Chao", title = "Sporosarcina antarctica sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from the Antarctic", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2008", volume = "58", number = "9", pages = "2114-2117", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65838-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65838-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A Gram-positive, psychrophilic, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain N-05T, was isolated from soil samples collected off King George Island, west Antarctica (6 ° 13′ 31″ S 5 ° 57′ 08″ W). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain N-05T was related to members of the genus Sporosarcina and had highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with the type strain of Sporosarcina macmurdoensis (98.0 %). The temperature range for growth of strain N-05T was 0–23 °C, with optimum growth occurring at 17–18 °C and approximately pH 6.0–8.0. Strain N-05T had MK-7 as the major menaquinone and anteiso-C15 : 0 and C16 : 1 ω7c alcohol as major fatty acids. The genomic DNA G+C content was 39.2 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic characteristics, phylogenetic analysis and DNA–DNA relatedness data, strain N-05T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Sporosarcina, for which the name Sporosarcina antarctica is proposed. The type strain is N-05T (=CGMCC 1.6503T=JCM 14646T).", }