%0 Journal Article %A Osman, Ghenijan %A Gao, Yan %A Wang, Ning %A Mahmud, Otkur %A Sun, Jian %A Zhang, Tao %A Zhan, Faqiang %A Zhang, Zhidong %A Lou, Kai %T Pontibacter brevis sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of Tamarix ramosissima %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 1 %P 81-86 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002455 %K Pontibacter %K Tamarix %K rhizosphere soil %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, oval-shaped and light pink pigmented bacterium, designated XAAS-2T, was isolated from rhizosphere soil of Tamarix ramosissima. The sole respiratory quinone of the type strain XAAS-2T was MK-7, and the principal cellular fatty acids were summed feature 4 (iso-C17 : 1 I and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B) and iso-C15 : 0. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and two unidentified lipids. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain XAAS-2T belonged to the genus Pontibacter within the family Cytophagaceae with sequence similarities of 93.9–97.1 % to other type species of the genus Pontibacter and to Pontibacter xinjiangensis CCTCC AB 207200T as the closest neighbour. The DNA G+C content of strain XAAS-2T was 50.6 mol%. The level of DNA–DNA relatedness of XAAS-2T and P. xinjiangensis CCTCC AB 207200T was 47.5 % (sd=3.27). Phenotypic and genotypic data suggested that strain XAAS-2T represents a novel species of the genus Pontibacter , for which the name Pontibacter brevis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain XAAS-2T (=CCTCC AB 2016135T=JCM 31443T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002455