%0 Journal Article %A BENNASAR, ANTONIO %A ROSSELLĂ“-MORA, RAMON %A LALUCAT, JORGE %A MOORE, EDWARD R. B. %T 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis Relative to Genomovars of Pseudomonas stutzeri and Proposal of Pseudomonas balearica sp. nov. %D 1996 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 46 %N 1 %P 200-205 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-1-200 %I Microbiology Society, %X We compared the 16S rRNA gene sequences of 14 strains of Pseudomonas stutzeri, including type strain CCUG 11256 and strain ZoBell (= ATCC 14405), which represented the seven P. stutzeri genomovars (DNA-DNA similarity groups) that have been described. Our sequence analysis revealed clusters which were highly correlated with genomovar clusters derived from DNA-DNA hybridization data. In addition, we identified signature nucleotide positions for each genomovar. We found that the 16S rRNA gene sequences of genomovar 6 strains SP1402T (T = type strain) and LS401 were different enough from the sequence of the type strain of P. stutzeri that these organisms should be placed in a new species, Pseudomonas balearica. The type strain of P. balearica is strain SP1402 (= DSM 6083). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-46-1-200