%0 Journal Article %A Kim, Ji-Young %A Park, So-Hyun %A Seo, Ga-Young %A Kim, Young-Ju %A Oh, Duck-Chul %T Winogradskyella eckloniae sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the brown alga Ecklonia cava %D 2015 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 65 %N Pt_9 %P 2791-2796 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000334 %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel bacterial strain, designated EC29T, was isolated from the brown alga Ecklonia cava collected on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. Cells of strain EC29T were Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and motile by gliding. Growth was observed at 10–30 °C (optimum, 20–25 °C), at pH 6.0–9.5 (optimum, pH 7.5) and in the presence of 1–5 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that the strain belonged to the genus Winogradskyella. Strain EC29T exhibited the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, of 96.5–97.8 %, to the type strains of Winogradskyella pulchriflava EM106T, Winogradskyella echinorum KMM 6211T and Winogradskyella ulvae KMM 6390T. Strain EC29T exhibited < 27 % DNA–DNA relatedness with Winogradskyella pulchriflava EM106T and Winogradskyella echinorum KMM 6211T. The predominant fatty acids of strain EC29T were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 1 G, C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, iso-C15 : 0 3-OH and anteiso-C15 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 31.1 mol% and the major respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6 (MK-6). Based on a polyphasic study, strain EC29T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Winogradskyella, for which the name Winogradskyella eckloniae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is EC29T ( = KCTC 32172T = JCM 18703T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000334