RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Mayilraj, S. A1 Kroppenstedt, R. M. A1 Suresh, K. A1 Saini, H. S.YR 2006 T1 Kocuria himachalensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the Indian Himalayas JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 56 IS 8 SP 1971 OP 1975 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63915-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB 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)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.63915-0