%0 Journal Article %A Choi, Ji Young %A Choi, Seung-Hyeon %A Park, Jam-Eon %A Kim, Ji-Sun %A Lee, Jiyoung %A Lee, Mi-Kyung %A Lee, Jung-Sook %A Lee, Ju Huck %A Jung, Hyunjung %A Hur, Tai-Young %A Kim, Hyeun Bum %A Lee, Ju-Hoon %A Kim, Jae-Kyung %A Kang, Se Won %A Park, Seung-Hwan %T Phocaeicola faecicola sp. nov., isolated from porcine faeces %D 2021 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 71 %N 9 %@ 1466-5034 %C 005008 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005008 %K Porcine faeces %K Bacteroides %K Phocaeicola faecicola %K Obligate anaerobe %I Microbiology Society, %X An obligately anaerobic, non-motile, Gram-negative and rod-shaped strain (AGMB03916T) was isolated from faeces of a 2-week-old piglet raised at the National Institute of Animal Science in Wanju, Republic of Korea. Growth of strain AGMB03916T occurred at 30–45 °C (optimum, 37 °C), at pH 6–9 (optimum, pH 8) and in the presence of 0.5–1.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Based on the results of 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses, strain AGMB03916T was closely related to two validly published species of the genus Phocaeicola , Phocaeicola plebeius and Phocaeicola coprocola . The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of strain AGMB03916T compared to P. plebeius M12T (=KCTC 5793T) and P. coprocola M16T (=KCTC 5443T) were 96.3 and 95.0 %, respectively. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain AGMB03916T was 46.4 mol%. The average nucleotide identity values between strain AGMB03916T and the reference strains were 74.9–78.5 %. Cells were able to utilize d-glucose, lactose, sucrose, maltose, salicin, aesculin hydrolysis, cellobiose and raffinose. The major end product of metabolism was acetate. The major cellular fatty acids (>10 %) of the isolate were iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0, C16 : 0 3-OH and summed feature 11 (iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and/or C18 : 2 DMA). On the basis of the genotypic, biochemical, chemotaxonomic, phenotypic and phylogenetic data, strain AGMB03916T represents a novel species of the genus Phocaeicola , for which the name Phocaeicola faecicola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AGMB03916T (=KCTC 25014T=GDMCC 1.2574T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005008