%0 Journal Article %A Choi, Seon %A Kang, Joo Won %A Lee, Ji Hee %A Seong, Chi Nam %T Dokdonia lutea sp. nov., isolated from Sargassum fulvellum seaweed %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 11 %P 4482-4486 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002317 %K Sargassum fulvellum %K South Sea %K Dokdonia lutea %I Microbiology Society, %X A non-motile, yellow-coloured and rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain SFD34T, was isolated from seaweed collected from the South Sea, Republic of Korea. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH and iso-C15 : 1 G. Strain SFD34T contained MK-6 and phosphatidylethanolamine as the only isoprenoid quinone and major polar lipid, respectively. The DNA G+C content was 35 mol%. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain SFD34T formed evolutionary lineage within the radiation enclosing the members of the genus Dokdonia with Dokdonia pacifica SW230T (96.86 % sequence similarity) as its nearest neighbour. A number of phenotypic characteristics distinguished strain SFD34T from related members of the genus Dokdonia . On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, a novel species, Dokdonia lutea sp. nov., is proposed for strain SFD34T (=KCTC 52269T=JCM 31795T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002317