@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000931, author = "Park, Inhye and Cha, In-Tae and Seo, Myung-Ji", title = "Thalassobius litorarius sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2016", volume = "66", number = "4", pages = "1666-1672", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000931", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000931", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and rod-shaped bacterium, belonging to the family Rhodobacteraceae, designated strain MME-075T, was isolated from a tidal flat. Strain MME-075T grew with 1–5 % (w/v) NaCl at 20–35 °C and at pH 7–9. Optimal growth occurred with 2 % (w/v) NaCl at 25–30 °C and at pH 7. The dominant respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10, whereas summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c), 11-methyl C18 : 1ω7c, and C16 : 0 were the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol and an unidentified lipid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 62.1 mol%. The highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values were between strain MME-075T and Thalassobius aestuarii, Thalassococcus lentus, Thalassobius maritimus and Shimia marina and were 97.6, 97.5, 97.2 and 96.2 %, respectively. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, revealed that strain MME-075T clustered with species of the genus Thalassobius. Based on phenotypic and phylogenetic taxonomic properties, this strain is proposed as a representative of a novel species of the genus Thalassobius, for which the name Thalassobius litorarius sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MME-075T ( = KCCM 43143T = JCM 30758T).", }