%0 Journal Article %A Proença, Diogo N. %A Whitman, William B. %A Shapiro, Nicole %A Woyke, Tanja %A Kyrpides, Nikos C. %A Morais, Paula V. %T Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the family Pleomorphomonadaceae, class Alphaproteobacteria %D 2023 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 72 %N 12 %@ 1466-5034 %C 005623 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005623 %K pine wilt disease %K genome %K Faunimonas pinastri %K endophyte %K Alphaproteobacteria %I Microbiology Society, %X Bacterial strain A52C2T was isolated from the endophytic microbial community of a Pinus pinaster tree trunk and characterized. Strain A52C2T stained Gram-negative and formed rod-shaped cells that grew optimally at 30 °C and at pH 6.0–7.0. The G+C content of the DNA was 65.1 mol %. The respiratory quinone was ubiquinone 10, and the major fatty acids were cyclo-C19:0 ω8c and C18:0, representing 70.1 % of the total fatty acids. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences placed strain A52C2T in a distinct lineage within the order Hyphomicrobiales , family Pleomorphomonadaceae . The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of A52C2T to that of Mongoliimonas terrestris and Oharaeibacter diazotrophicus were 93.15 and 93.2 %, respectively. The draft genome sequence of strain A52C2T comprises 4 196 045 bases with a 195-fold mapped coverage of the genome. The assembled genome consists of 43 contigs of more than 1 000 bp (N50 contig size was 209 720 bp). The genome encodes 4033 putative coding sequences. The phylogenetic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data showed that strain A52C2T (=UCCCB 130T=CECT 8949T=LMG 29042T) represents the type of a novel species and genus, for which we propose the name Faunimonas pinastri gen. nov., sp. nov. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.005623