%0 Journal Article %A Kang, Heeyoung %A Kim, Haneul %A Joung, Yochan %A Joh, Kiseong %T Emticicia paludis sp. nov., isolated from wetland freshwater %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 9 %P 3383-3387 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001205 %K 16S rRNA gene %K Emticicia paludis sp. nov. %K wetland freshwater %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel bacterium, designated HMF3850T, was isolated from freshwater collected from the Gyeong-an wetland, Republic of Korea. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, straight rods, non-motile, and oxidase- and catalase-positive. Growth was observed at pH 6.0–8.0 and at 10–30 °C on R2A agar. Comparative analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain HMF3850T is a member of the genus Emticicia , sharing highest sequence similarities with Emticicia aquatica HMF2925T (96.7 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Emticicia sediminis JBR12T (95.0 %), Emticicia ginsengisoli Gsoil 085T (94.9 %) and Emticicia oligotrophica DSM 17448T (94.7 %). The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω7c and/or C16 : 1 ω6c) and C16 : 0. The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-7. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, one unidentified aminophospholipid, two unidentified aminolipids and eight unidentified polar lipids. The DNA G+C content was 38.5 mol %. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain HMF3850T represents a novel species of the genus Emticicia , for which the name Emticicia paludis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HMF3850T (=KCTC 42851T=CECT 9087T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001205