%0 Journal Article %A Zhou, Ming-Yang %A Zhang, Yan-Jiao %A Zhang, Xi-Ying %A Yang, Xiao-Deng %A He, Hai-Lun %A Ning, Daliang %A Du, Zongjun %T Flavobacterium phocarum sp. nov., isolated from soils of a seal habitat in Antarctica %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 2 %P 536-541 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002535 %K polyphasic taxonomy %K Antarctic soil %K sp. nov %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, yellow-pigmented, non-flagellated, gliding, rod-shaped, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive bacterium, designated SE14T, was isolated from soil on King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Strain SE14T grew at 4–25 °C (optimum, 20 °C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0–7.5) and with 0–3.0 % NaCl (optimum, 1.0–1.5 %), and could not produce flexirubin-type pigments. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed the the isolate belonged to the genus Flavobacterium . Strain SE14T had the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Flavobacterium antarcticum , F. tegetincola and F. degerlachei with 95.8, 95.5 and 95.2 %, respectively. The strain SE14T consisted of a clade with Flavobacterium noncentrifugens (16S rRNA gene sequence similarity 94.9 %) and F. qiangtangense (16S rRNA gene sequence similarity 94.2 %) and simultaneously formed a distinct phyletic lineage in the neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree. Polar lipids of the strain included phosphatidylethanolamine and four unidentified aminolipids. Strain SE14T contained anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and a mixture of iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1 ω7c as the main fatty acids, and the only respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6. The genomic DNA G+C content was 42.3 mol%. The polyphasic taxonomic study revealed that strain SE14T belongs to a novel species within the genus Flavobacterium , and the name Flavobacterium phocarum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SE14T (=CCTCC AB 2017225T=KCTC 52612T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002535