Alcanivorax pacificus sp. nov., isolated from a deep-sea pyrene-degrading consortium Lai, Qiliang and Wang, Liping and Liu, Yuhui and Fu, Yuanyuan and Zhong, Huanzi and Wang, Baojiang and Chen, Liang and Wang, Jianning and Sun, Fengqin and Shao, Zongze,, 61, 1370-1374 (2011), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.022368-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A taxonomic study was carried out on a novel bacterial strain, designated W11-5T, which was isolated from a pyrene-degrading consortium enriched from deep-sea sediment of the Pacific Ocean. The isolate was Gram-reaction-negative and oxidase- and catalase-positive. Growth was observed in 0.5–12 % (w/v) NaCl and at 10–42 °C. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain W11-5T was shown to belong to the genus Alcanivorax with a close relation to A. dieselolei B-5T (93.9 % 16S rRNA sequence similarity), A. balearicus MACL04T (93.1 %), A. hongdengensis A-11-3T (93.1 %), A. borkumensis SK2T (93.0 %), A. venustensis ISO4T (93.0 %) and A. jadensis T9T (92.9 %). Similarities between the gyrB gene sequences of W11-5T and other species of the genus Alcanivorax were between 76.8 and 80.8 %. The principal fatty acids were C12 : 0 3-OH (8.0 %), C16 : 0 (29.1 %) and C18 : 1ω7c (27.4 %). The G+C content of the chromosomal DNA was 60.8 mol%. Based on its morphology, physiology and fatty acid composition as well as the results of 16S rRNA and gyrB gene sequence analyses, strain W11-5T ( = MCCC 1A00474T  = CCTCC AB 208236T  = LMG 25514T) represents a novel species of the genus Alcanivorax, for which the name Alcanivorax pacificus sp. nov. is proposed., language=, type=