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Abstract

Twelve strains of psychrophilic bacteria were isolated from cyanobacterial mat samples collected from various water bodies in the McMurdo Dry Valley region of Antarctica. All the isolates were Gram-negative, non-motile, coccoid, psychrophilic, halotolerant bacteria and had C 7, C 8 and C 9 as the major fatty acids, ubiquinone-8 as the respiratory quinone and DNA G+C content of 41–46 mol%. Based on these characteristics, the isolates were assigned to the genus . Based on their SDS-PAGE profiles, the 12 isolates could be categorized into three groups. Six isolates of Group I were identified as representing strains of . However, using detailed phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis based on their 16S rRNA gene sequences, strain CMS 39, the only strain from Group II, and strain CMS 56, a representative strain of Group III, were different from each other and from all recognized species of . Therefore, it is proposed to classify CMS 39 (=DSM 15337=MTCC 4208) and CMS 56 (=DSM 15339=MTCC 4386) as representing the type strains of novel species of , for which the names sp. nov. and sp. nov., respectively, are proposed.

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