@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004194, author = "Xu, Qiang and Jiang, Fan and Da, Xuyang and Zhang, Yumin and Geng, Yingchao and Qin, Kun and Liu, Jia and Peng, Fang", title = "Chitinimonas arctica sp. nov., isolated from Arctic tundra soil", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2020", volume = "70", number = "5", pages = "3455-3461", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004194", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004194", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Chitinimonas arctica", keywords = "phylogenetic analysis", keywords = "taxonomy", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, green-pigmented, aerobic and motile bacterium, strain R3-44T, was isolated from Arctic tundra soil. Stain R3-44T clustered closely with members of the genus Chitinimonas , which belongs to the family Burkholderiaceae , and showed the highest 16S rRNA sequence similarity to Chitinimonas naiadis AR2T (96.10%). Strain R3-44T grew optimally at pH 7.0, 28 °C and in the presence of 0–0.5 % (w/v) NaCl. The predominant respiratory isoprenoid quinone of strain R3-44T was identified as ubiquinone Q-8. The polar lipids consisted of phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, unidentified aminolipid and unidentified phospholipid. The main fatty acids were summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1  ω7c and/or C16 : 1  ω6c, 40.6 %) and C16 : 0 (29.3 %). The DNA G+C content of strain R3-44T was 60.8 mol%. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain R3-44T represents a novel species of the genus Chitinimonas , for which the name Chitinimonas arctica sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain R3-44T (=CCTCC AB 2010422T=KCTC 72602T).", }