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Published on: August 20, 2021
Reinekea blandensis sp. nov., a marine, genome-sequenced gammaproteobacterium
Jarone Pinhassi1, María J Pujalte2,3, M Carmen Macián4,2
1Marine Microbiology, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Kalmar, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden.
Abstract:
A novel heterotrophic, moderately halophilic, strictly aerobic, motile bacterium was isolated from a seawater sample collected at the Blanes Bay Microbial Observatory in the north-western Mediterranean Sea. Analysis of its 16S rRNA gene sequence, retrieved from the whole-genome sequence, showed that this bacterium was most closely related to the single-species genera Reinekea and Saccharospirillum (95 and 94 % sequence similarity, respectively) within the class Gammaproteobacteria. The data from phenotypic, genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses supported the creation of a novel species of the genus Reinekea to accommodate this bacterium, for which the name Reinekea blandensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MED297(T) (=CECT 7120(T) =CCUG 52066(T)).
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