Aliagarivorans marinus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Aliagarivorans taiwanensis sp. nov., facultatively anaerobic marine bacteria capable of agar degradation
Jean, Wen Dar and Huang, Ssu-Po and Liu, Tung Yen and Chen, Jwo-Sheng and Shieh, Wung Yang,, 59, 1880-1887 (2009),
doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.008235-0,
publicationName = Microbiology Society,
issn = 1466-5026,
abstract= Two agarolytic strains of Gram-negative, heterotrophic, facultatively anaerobic, marine bacteria, designated AAM1T and AAT1T, were isolated from seawater samples collected in the shallow coastal region of An-Ping Harbour, Tainan, Taiwan. Cells grown in broth cultures were straight rods that were motile by means of a single polar flagellum. The two isolates required NaCl for growth and grew optimally at about 25–30 °C, in 2–4 % NaCl and at pH 8. They grew aerobically and could achieve anaerobic growth by fermenting d-glucose or other sugars. The major isoprenoid quinone was Q-8 (79.8–92.0 %) and the major cellular fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH; 26.4–35.6 %), C18 : 1 ω7c (27.1–31.4 %) and C16 : 0 (14.8–16.3 %) in the two strains. Strains AAM1T and AAT1T had DNA G+C contents of 52.9 and 52.4 mol%, respectively. The two strains had a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity of 98.6 % and shared 84.9–92.4 % sequence similarity with the type strains of Agarivorans albus (91.2–92.4 %), eight Alteromonas species (84.9–87.1 %), two Aestuariibacter species (86.0–87.0 %), Bowmanella denitrificans (86.1–86.7 %), eight Glaciecola species (85.0–87.9 %) and Salinimonas chungwhensis (85.9–86.1 %). Despite their high sequence similarity, strains AAM1T and AAT1T had a DNA–DNA relatedness value of only 4.5 %. The data obtained from these polyphasic taxonomic studies revealed that the two agarolytic isolates could be classified as representatives of two novel species in a new genus, Aliagarivorans gen. nov., with Aliagarivorans marinus sp. nov. [type strain is AAM1T (=BCRC 17888T=JCM 15522T)] as the type species and Aliagarivorans taiwanensis sp. nov. [type strain is AAT1T (=BCRC 17889T=JCM 15537T)] as a second species.,
language=,
type=