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Published on: October 31, 2019
Roseomonas acroporae sp. nov., isolated from coral Acropora digitifera
Ziqiang Xie1,2, Longsheng Wang1,2, Bogui Chen1,2
1Shenzhen Institute of Guangdong Ocean University, Binhai 2 Road, Shenzhen, 518120, PR China.
Abstract:
A non-motile, rod-shaped, pink-pigmented bacterium NAR14T was isolated from coral Acropora digitifera from Daya Bay, Shenzhen, PR China. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. NAR14T grew with 0-6 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2-4 %), at 10-41 °C (optimum, 28 °C) and at pH 4.0-9.5 (optimum, 5.0). The major respiratory quinone was Q-10. The predominant fatty acids (more than 10%) were summed feature 8 (65.6 %) and C16 : 0 (17.6%). The DNA G+C content of NAR14T was 73.6 %. The polar lipids of NAR14T comprised one diphosphatidylglycerol, one phosphatidylethanolamine, one phosphatidylglycerol, one phosphatidylcholine, one aminolipid and three unknown polar lipids. The results of phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that NAR14T formed a lineage within the genus Roseomonas of the family Acetobacteraceae, and it was distinct from the most closely related species Roseomonas wooponensis JCM 19527T and Roseomonas riguiloci JCM 17520T with the 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of 94.61 and 93.98 %, respectively. Phenotypic characteristics (physiological, biochemical and chemotaxonomic) also supported the taxonomic novelty of this isolate. Thus, NAR14T is considered to represent a novel species within the genus Roseomonas, for which the name Roseomonas acroporae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NAR14T (=KCTC 92174T = MCCC 1K07275T).
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