RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Kang, Heeyoung A1 Cha, Inseong A1 Kim, Haneul A1 Joh, KiseongYR 2018 T1 Maribacter maritimus sp. nov., isolated from seawater JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 8 SP 2431 OP 2436 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002843 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel Gram-stain-negative, motile by gliding and straight rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated HMF3635T, was isolated from seawater of the East Sea, Republic of Korea. Strain HMF3635T grew optimally on marine agar at 30 °C, pH 7.0–8.0 and 2.0 % NaCl. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HMF3635T belonged to the genus Maribacter and was most closely related to Maribacter arenosus CAU 1321T (96.4 % sequence similarity) and Maribacter polysiphoniae KMM 6151T (96.0 %). The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 1 G and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. The only respiratory quinone was menaquinone 6. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, four unidentified aminolipids, one unidentified phospholipid and three unidentified polar lipids. The DNA G+C content was 38.7 mol%. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain HMF3635T represents a novel species of the genus Maribacter , for which the name Maribacter maritimus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of the species is strain HMF3635T (=KCTC 52399T=NBRC 112671T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002843