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Abstract
A marine bacterium, named strain feces2T, was isolated from the excreted faeces of an abalone, Haliotis discus hannai. The bacterium was Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped and had a polar flagellum. It formed a white, small and crater-like colony on an agar plate, and had the capability of degrading agar. Activity of oxidase was positive and that of catalase was negative. Strain feces2T grew at 16 to 40 °C with an optimum of 28–30 °C. The nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene of strain feces2T had the greatest sequence similarity of 92.9 % with Marinibactrumhalimedae Q-192T, followed by of 92.8 % with Teredinibacterturnerae T7902T. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that strain feces2T belonged to the family Cellvibrionaceae , representing an independent clade with an uncultured bacterium clone NEP3-15 (98 % sequence similarity of 16S rRNA gene) derived from the phycosphere of Enteromorphaprolifera. The respiratory quinone was ubiquinone Q-8. The predominant fatty acids consisted of summed feature 8 (C18 : 1 ω7c/C18 : 1 ω6c), C16 : 0 and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω6c/C16 : 1ω7c). The polar lipids were identified as phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified amino phospholipid and four unknown lipids. The genomic DNA G+C content was 50.5 mol%. On the basis of polyphasic characterizations, strain feces2T represented a novel species and a novel genus in the family Cellvibrionaceae of the order Cellvibrionales within the Gammaproteobacteria , for which the name Agaribacteriumhaliotis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain being feces2T (=MCCC 1A11450T=KCTC 52708T).
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