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Abstract

Two slow-growing, Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming, coccoid bacteria (strains F60 and F965), isolated in Austria from mandibular lymph nodes of two red foxes (), were subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic analysis. In a recent study, both isolates were assigned to the genus but could not be attributed to any of the existing species. Hence, we have analysed both strains in further detail to determine their exact taxonomic position and genetic relatedness to other members of the genus . The genome sizes of F60 and F965 were 3 236 779 and 3 237 765 bp, respectively. Each genome consisted of two chromosomes, with a DNA G+C content of 57.2 %. A genome-to-genome distance of >80 %, an average nucleotide identity (ANI) of 97 % and an average amino acid identity (AAI) of 98 % compared with the type species confirmed affiliation to the genus. Remarkably, 5 % of the entire genetic information of both strains was of non- origin, including as-yet uncharacterized bacteriophages and insertion sequences as well as ABC transporters and other genes of metabolic function from various soil-living bacteria. Core-genome-based phylogenetic reconstructions placed the novel species well separated from all hitherto-described species of the genus , forming a long-branched sister clade to the classical species of . In summary, based on phenotypic and molecular data, we conclude that strains F60 and F965 are members of a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain F60 ( = BCCN 09-2 = DSM 101715).

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