@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000259, author = "Deng, Sangsang and Jiang, Fan and Chang, Xulu and Qu, Zhihao and Ren, Lvzhi and Zhang, Yumin and Kan, Wenjing and Da, Xuyang and Qiu, Xia and Kim, Myongchol and Fang, Chengxiang and Peng, Fang", title = "Roseovariusantarcticus sp. nov., isolated from a decayed whale bone", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2015", volume = "65", number = "Pt_7", pages = "2326-2333", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000259", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000259", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A pale yellow, ovoid- to rod-shaped and budding bacterium, designated strain M-S13-148T, was isolated from a decayed bone of whale from the eastern coast of King George Island, South Shetlands, Antarctica. Strain M-S13-148T exhibited motility, aerobic growth and was Gram-stain-negative. Strain M-S13-148T was positive for catalase and oxidase. Growth was observed at pH 6.0–9.0, at 4–42 °C and with 0–14 % (w/v) NaCl. The novel strain contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine and an unknown phospholipid as the major polar lipids. The dominant cellular fatty acids were summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c), (58.8 %) and C16 : 0 (11.7 %). The respiratory quinone was Q-10 and the DNA G+C content was 60.9 mol%. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and minimum-evolution phylogenetic trees, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, indicated that strain M-S13-148T belonged to the genus Roseovarius and was most closely related to Roseovarius nanhaiticus CCTCC AB 208317T (93.72 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity). The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with respect to members of the genus Roseovarius ranged from 91.81 to 93.94 %. On the basis of phenotypic, molecular and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain M-S13-148 is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Roseovarius, for which the name Roseovarius antarcticus sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is M-S13-148T ( = CCTCC AB2014072T = LMG 28420T).", }