%0 Journal Article %A Margesin, Rosa %A Zhang, De-Chao %A Albuquerque, Luciana %A Froufe, Hugo J. C. %A Egas, Conceição %A da Costa, Milton S. %T Lysobacter silvestris sp. nov., isolated from alpine forest soil, and reclassification of Luteimonas tolerans as Lysobacter tolerans comb. nov. %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 5 %P 1571-1577 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002710 %K Lysobacter %K forest %K alpine %K Luteimonas %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, motile, catalase-positive and cytochrome c oxidase-positive bacterial strain, designated AM20-91T, was isolated from alpine forest soil. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing showed that strain AM20-91T was related to the genus Lysobacter and had highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to the type strains of Lysobacter novalis THG-PC7T (97.8 %), Luteimonas tolerans UM1T (97.7 %) and Lysobacter ximonensis XM415T (97.0 %). The strain contained ubiquinone 8 as the predominant respiratory quinone; its polar lipid profile contained phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and two unidentified aminophospholipids. The major cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C11 : 0 3-OH and iso-C11 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 63.35 % (draft genome sequence). The combined results of phylogenetic, phenotypic, DNA–DNA relatedness and chemotaxonomic analyses demonstrated that strain AM20-91T represents a novel species of the genus Lysobacter , for which the name Lysobacter silvestris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is AM20-91T (=DSM 104734T=LMG 30011). In this study, it is also proposed that Luteimonas tolerans be reclassified as member of the genus Lysobacter. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002710