Bizionia argentinensis sp. nov., isolated from surface marine water in Antarctica Bercovich, Andrés and Vazquez, Susana C. and Yankilevich, Patricio and Coria, Silvia H. and Foti, Marcelo and Hernández, Edgardo and Vidal, Alejandro and Ruberto, Lucas and Melo, Carlos and Marenssi, Sergio and Criscuolo, Marcelo and Memoli, Mariano and Arguelles, Marcelo and Mac Cormack, Walter P.,, 58, 2363-2367 (2008), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65599-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A marine bacterial strain, designated strain JUB59T, was isolated from surface seawater in Antarctica and subsequently characterized. Cells were found to be Gram-negative, non-motile rods forming butyrous, shiny, yellowish orange colonies on marine agar. Growth occurred at 2–28 °C (optimally at 22–25 °C) but not at 30 °C; Na+ ions were required, but 9 % NaCl (w/v) was not tolerated. Phylogenetic analysis, based on comparisons of the complete 16S rRNA gene sequence of the novel isolate with the sequences of closely related strains, showed that strain JUB59T belonged to the family Flavobacteriaceae, representing a novel species of the genus Bizionia. The highest levels of sequence similarity were found with respect to Bizionia myxarmorum ADA-4T (97.4 %) and Bizionia algoritergicola APA-1T (97.1 %). However, the DNA–DNA relatedness of strain JUB59T with respect to these two strains was low (15.9–17.3  and 19.3–22.1 %, respectively). The predominant fatty acids of strain JUB59T were iso-15 : 1ω10c (18.1 %), iso-15 : 0 (17.3 %), anteiso-15 : 0 (13.9 %), iso-17 : 0 3-OH (9.2 %), 15 : 0 (6.0 %) and iso-16 : 0 3-OH (5.3 %). The main polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, an aminolipid, an amino-positive phospholipid and two unidentified lipids. MK-6 was the major respiratory quinone (>90 %) and the DNA G+C content was 34 mol%. On the basis of the data obtained, strain JUB59T represents a novel species of the genus Bizionia, for which the name Bizionia argentinensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JUB59T (=DSM 19628T=CCM-A-29 1259T)., language=, type=