Paenibacillus qingshengii sp. nov., isolated from a lead–zinc tailing Chen, Ling and Wang, Lu and Sheng, Xia-Fang,, 65, 2161-2166 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000232, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel bacterial strain, S1-9T, was isolated from a lead–zinc tailing in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. Cells of strain S1-9T were Gram-stain-negative, ellipsoidal endospore-forming, aerobic rods and motile by means of peritrichous flagella. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain S1-9T was shown to belong to the genus Paenibacillus and the closest phylogenetic relatives were Paenibacillus glucanolyticus DSM 5162T (96.8 % similarity), Paenibacillus lautus NRRL NRS-666T (96.5 %) and Paenibacillus lactis MB 1871T (95.4 %). The predominant menaquinone was MK-7. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15:0 and iso-C16:0. The polar lipid profile contained phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, two unknown phospholipids and two unknown lipids. The total DNA G+C content of strain S1-9T was 49.9 mol%. Based on the low levels of DNA–DNA relatedness (ranging from 21.8 to 48.4 %) to the type strains of the above species of the genus Paenibacillus and unique phenotypic characteristics, strain S1-9T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus qingshengii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S1-9T ( = CCTCC AB 2014290T = JCM 30613T)., language=, type=