| Abstract |
A mesophilic, straight-rod-shaped, non-flagellated bacterium, designated MEBiC05444T, was isolated from a marine sponge collected from Chuuk lagoon, Federated States of Micronesia. The strain was Gram-negative, catalase- and oxidase-positive, and facultative anaerobic. The isolate aerobically grew at 8-38 °C (optimum, 24-32 °C), pH 4.0-10.0 (pH 7.0-7.5) with an absolute requirement for Na+ up to 6 % (w/v) NaCl (2 %). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that MEBiC05444T belonged to the family Shewanellaceae, within the class Gammaproteobacteria. Strain MEBiC05444T showed highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Parashewanella curva C51T, followed by [Shewanella] irciniae UST040317-058T and Parashewanella spongiae HJ039T (98.9 %, 97.2 and 95.7 %, respectively). In the phylogenetic tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences, MEBiC05444T formed a cluster with P. curva C51T, but the average nucleotide identity value between the two strains was 82 %, thus confirming their separation at species level. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 (19.7 %), summed feature 3 (composed of C16 : 1 ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c; 16.1 %) and C17 : 1ω8c (10.2 %). The only detected respiratory quinone was ubiquinone Q-8. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, three unidentified aminoglycolipids, two unidentified glycolipids, an unidentified aminoglycophospholipid and an unidentified lipid. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain MEBiC05444T was 40.8 mol%. Based on the results of polyphasic analysis, the strain represents a novel species of the genus Parashewanella, distinct from P. curva C51T, [Shewanella]irciniae UST040317-058T and P. spongiae HJ039T for which the name Parashewanellatropica sp. nov. is proposed with type strain MEBiC05444T (=KCCM 43304T=JCM 16653T).
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