%0 Journal Article %A Mayilraj, S. %A Kroppenstedt, R. M. %A Suresh, K. %A Saini, H. S. %T Kocuria himachalensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the Indian Himalayas %D 2006 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 56 %N 8 %P 1971-1975 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63915-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A reddish orange bacterium, strain K07-05T, was isolated from soil during a study of the bacterial diversity of a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas and was studied by using a polyphasic approach. The organism had morphological and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with its classification in the genus Kocuria. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain K07-05T was closely related to Kocuria rosea DSM 20447T and Kocuria polaris MTCC 3702T (98.1 and 97.8 % sequence similarity, respectively), whereas the sequence similarity values with respect to the other Kocuria species with validly published names were between 96.4 and 94.2 %. However, the genomic relatedness, as shown by DNA–DNA hybridization, of strain K07-05T and K. polaris MTCC 3702T is 49.5 % and that with K. rosea MTCC 2522T is 24.0 %. The DNA G+C content of the strain is 75.3 mol%. The above data in combination with the phenotypic distinctiveness of K07-05T clearly indicate that the strain represents a novel species, for which the name Kocuria himachalensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is K07-05T (=MTCC 7020T=DSM 44905T=JCM 13326T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63915-0