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Published on: April 20, 2012
Alteromonas australica sp. nov., isolated from the Tasman Sea
Elena P Ivanova1, Hooi Jun Ng, Hayden K Webb
1Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia. eivanova@swin.edu.au
Abstract:
A non-pigmented, motile, Gram-negative bacterium designated H 17(T) was isolated from a seawater sample collected in Port Phillip Bay (the Tasman Sea, Pacific Ocean). The new organism displayed optimal growth between 4 and 37 °C, was found to be neutrophilic and slightly halophilic, tolerating salt water environments up to 10 % NaCl. Strain H 17(T) was found to be able to degrade starch and Tween 80 but unable to degrade gelatin or agar. Phosphatidylglycerol (27.7 %) and phosphatidylethanolamine (72.3 %) were found to be the only associated phospholipids. The major fatty acids identified are typical for the genus Alteromonas and include C16:0, C16:1ω7, C17:1ω8 and C18:1ω7. The G+C content of the DNA was found to be 43.4 mol%. A phylogenetic study, based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and Multilocus Phylogenetic Analysis, clearly indicated that strain H 17(T) belongs to the genus Alteromonas. The DNA-DNA relatedness between strain H 17(T) and the validly named Alteromonas species was between 30.7 and 46.4 mol%. Based on these results, a new species, Alteromonas australica, is proposed. The type strain is H 17(T) (= KMM 6016(T) = CIP 109921(T)).
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