Chitinophaga eiseniae sp. nov., isolated from vermicompost Yasir, Muhammad and Chung, Eu Jin and Song, Geun Cheol and Bibi, Fehmida and Jeon, Che Ok and Chung, Young Ryun,, 61, 2373-2378 (2011), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023028-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterial strain, YC6729T, was isolated from vermicompost collected at Masan, Korea, and its taxonomic position was investigated by a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Strain YC6729T grew optimally at 30 °C and at pH 6.5–8.5. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain YC6729T belongs to the genus Chitinophaga in the family Chitinophagaceae. It was related most closely to Chitinophaga terrae KP01T (96.4 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity), Chitinophaga ginsengisegetis Gsoil 040T (96.1 %), Chitinophaga arvensicola IAM 12650T (96.1 %) and Chitinophaga pinensis DSM 2588T (93.3 %). Strain YC6729T contained MK-7 as the major menaquinone and homospermidine as the major polyamine. The fatty acids of strain YC6729T were iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 1ω5c, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, C16 : 0, anteiso-C18 : 0 and/or C18 : 2ω6,9c, iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1ω7c, C14 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 3-OH, iso-C15 : 1 G, C18 : 1ω5c, iso-C15 : 1 I and/or C13 : 0 3-OH, C13 : 0 2-OH, C16 : 0 3-OH and unknown fatty acid ECL 13.565. The polar lipid profile contained phosphatidylethanolamine, unknown aminolipids and unknown lipids. The total DNA G+C content of strain YC6729T was 48.9 mol%. The phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data showed that strain YC6729T represents a novel species of the genus Chitinophaga, for which the name Chitinophaga eiseniae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YC6729T ( = KACC 13774T  = DSM 22224T)., language=, type=