@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000323, author = "Zhou, Yan-Xia and Wang, Chao and Du, Zong-Jun and Chen, Guan-Jun", title = "Aquimarina agarivorans sp. nov., a genome-sequenced member of the class Flavobacteriia isolated from Gelidium amansii", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2015", volume = "65", number = "Pt_8", pages = "2684-2688", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000323", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000323", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A novel Gram-stain-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, agar-digesting bacterial strain, designated HQM9T, was isolated from the surface of the marine red alga Gelidium amansii collected from the intertidal zone of Weihai, China. Cells of HQM9T were 3.0–4.0 μm long and 0.2–0.3 μm wide and lacked flagella. The new isolate grew optimally at 28–30 °C, at pH 7.0–7.5, and in the presence of 2.5–3.0  % NaCl. The predominant cellular fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. The sole menaquinone was MK-6. The DNA G+C content was 33 mol%. The major polar lipids were comprised of phosphatidylethanolamine and four unknown polar lipids. Based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence, the closest relative was Aquimarina agarilytica ZC1T with 97.16  % sequence similarity, with which strain HQM9T formed a distinct cluster belonging to the genus Aquimarina in a phylogenetic tree. Moreover, average nucleotide identity and estimated DNA–DNA hybridization values between strains HQM9T and ZC1T were 78.7  % and 12.50 ± 2.95  %, respectively. On the basis of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analysis, strain HQM9T represents the type strain of a novel species within the genus Aquimarina in the family Flavobacteriaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes, for which the name Aquimarina agarivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HQM9T ( = ATCC BAA-2612T = CICC 10835T).", }