Natrinema soli sp. nov., a novel halophilic archaeon isolated from a hypersaline wetland Rasooli, Mehrnoosh and Naghoni, Ali and Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali and Mirfeizi, Leila and Moshtaghi Nikou, Mahdi and Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan and Minegishi, Hiroaki and Ventosa, Antonio,, 67, 2142-2147 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001909, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= An extremely halophilic archaeon, designated strain 5-3T, was isolated from a soil sample of Meighan wetland in Iran. Strain 5-3T was strictly aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, non-motile and ovoid. Colonies of strain 5-3T were cream-coloured. The isolate showed optimum growth at 4.0 M NaCl, 40 °C and pH 7.0. The major polar lipids of the strain were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol phosphate methyl ester, two unknown phospholipids and three glycolipids (including one that was chromatographically identical to S2-DGD). The major respiratory quinone was menaquinone MK-8. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 61.5 mol%. The closest relative was Natrinema salaciae JCM 17869T with 97.3 % similarity in the orthologous 16S rRNA gene sequence. Analysis of 16S rRNA and rpoB′ gene sequences indicated that strain 5-3T is a member of the genus Natrinema in the family Natrialbaceae and forms a distinct cluster. On the basis of phylogenetic analysis, and phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, a novel species of the family Natrialbaceae , Natrinema soli sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is 5-3T (=IBRC-M 11063T=LMG 29247T)., language=, type=