Flavobacterium macacae sp. nov., isolated from Macaca mulatta faeces

A yellow, Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-gliding, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped strain, designated YIM 102600^T, was isolated from the faeces of Macaca mulatta dwelling in the Yunnan Wild Animal Park, Yunnan Province, South-West PR China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain YIM 102600^T was a member of the genus Flavobacterium, and closely related to Flavobacterium qiangtangense F3^T (96.9 % similarity) and Flavobacterium noncentrifugens R-HLS-17^T (96.0 % similarity). Phylogenetic trees showed that strain YIM 102600^T formed a clade with F. qiangtangense F3^T and F. noncentrifugens R-HLS-17^T. Growth occurred at 4-30 °C (optimum, 28 °C), pH 7.0-8.0 (pH 7.5) and NaCl concentration 0-2 % (w/v; 0-1 %, w/v). The major fatty acids were iso-C_15:0 and summed feature 3 (comprising C_16:1 ω7c and/or C_16:1 ω6c). The predominant polar lipid was phosphatidylethanolamine and the sole respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6. The DNA G+C content was 36.4 mol%. The calculated digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain YIM 102600^T and other species of Flavobacterium ranged from 70.0 to 75.0 % and average nucleotide identity values were in a range between 13.7 to 23.5 %. Based above the consensus of phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses as well as whole genome comparisons, strain YIM 102600^T (=KCTC 52099^T=CCTCC AB 201632^T) is proposed to represent type strain of a novel species, Flavobacterium macacae sp. nov.