@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001902, author = "Castro, David J. and Llamas, Inmaculada and Béjar, Victoria and Martínez-Checa, Fernando", title = "Blastomonas quesadae sp. nov., isolated from a saline soil by dilution-to-extinction cultivation", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2017", volume = "67", number = "6", pages = "2001-2007", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001902", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001902", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Blastomonas quesadae sp. nov.", keywords = "phylogenetic", keywords = "polyphasic taxonomy", keywords = "chemotaxonomy", abstract = "We isolated a Gram-stain-negative, aerobic bacterial strain, 912T, from a soil sample taken from Rambla Salada (Murcia), south-eastern Spain, by using the dilution-to-extinction method. Cells of the strain were motile with a polar flagellum, short rod-shaped, catalase- and oxidase-positive and grew at NaCl concentrations within the range 0–5 % (w/v) (optimum 3 %, w/v), at 4–32 °C (optimum 30 °C) and at pH 6–9 (optimum pH 7); bacteriochlorophyll a was produced. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that this strain belonged to the genus Blastomonas in the class Alphaproteobacteria . Its closest relatives were Blastomonas natatoria EY 4220T, Blastomonas ursincola KR-99T and Blastomonas aquatica PE 4-5T, to which the strain showed 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 95.9, 95.8 and 95.1 %, respectively. The DNA G+C content was 63 mol%. The major fatty acids of strain 912T were C18 : 1ω7c/C18  : 1ω6c, C16 : 1ω7c/C16  : 1ω6c, C16 : 0 and C17 : 1ω6c. The predominant isoprenoid quinone was ubiquinone 10 (Q-10). The polar lipids contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, sphingoglycolipid, phosphoglycolipid, one unidentified phospholipid and two unidentified polar lipids. Based on the phylogenetic, genotypic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data, the strain represents a novel species of the genus Blastomonas , for which the name Blastomonas quesadae sp. nov. is proposed. Strain 912T (=CECT 9186T=LMG 29921T) is the type strain.", }