@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004497, author = "Wang, Xiaolei and Guo, Feng and Tian, Peng and Yu, Shuangen and Xue, Chun-Xu and Wang, Wei and Xiao, Jiaguang and Niu, Wentao", title = "Flammeovirga agarivorans sp. nov., an agar-digesting marine bacterium isolated from surface seawater", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2020", volume = "70", number = "12", pages = "6060-6066", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004497", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.004497", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "surface seawater", keywords = "Flammeovirga agarivorans sp. nov.", keywords = "Luhuitou fringing reef", abstract = "A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, gliding, reddish-orange-coloured, rod-shaped strain, designated SR4T, was isolated from surface seawater sampled at Luhuitou fringing reef (South China Sea). Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene, phylogenomic analysis of single-copy gene families and whole genome data affiliated it to the genus Flammeovirga . It was most closely related to Flammeovirga yaeyamensis NBRC 100898T (97.99 % 16S rRNA gene similarity). The genome average nucleotide identity and DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain SR4T and its reference strains were less than 74.2 and 16.3 %, respectively. Growth occurred at 20–35 °C (optimum, 28 °C), pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 1–6 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2–4 %). The dominant fatty acids were C16 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and C20 : 4  ω6,9,12,15c. The polar lipid profile of strain SR4T comprised phosphatidylethanolamine, two glycolipids, two aminophospholipids and three unidentified lipids. The major respiratory quinone was MK-7. The DNA G+C content of strain SR4T was 34.20 mol%. On the basis of the polyphasic evidence, strain SR4T is proposed as representing a novel species of the genus Flammeovirga , for which the name Flammeovirga agarivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SR4T (=KCTC 82075T=MCCC 1A17137T).", }