%0 Journal Article %A Sakamoto, Mitsuo %A Ohkuma, Moriya %T Bacteroides reticulotermitis sp. nov., isolated from the gut of a subterranean termite (Reticulitermes speratus) %D 2013 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 63 %N Pt_2 %P 691-695 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.040931-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X An obligately anaerobic, non-pigmented, non-spore-forming, Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain Rs-03T, was isolated from the gut of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus. The taxonomic position of the novel strain was determined by following a polyphasic approach. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain Rs-03T was a member of the genus Bacteroides and was most closely related to Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron JCM 5827T (95.0 % sequence similarity), Bacteroides faecis JCM 16478T (94.8 %) and Bacteroides xylanisolvens JCM 15633T (94.3 %). The results of hsp60 gene sequence analysis indicated that the novel strain was different from established members of the genus Bacteroides . Strain Rs-03T was saccharolytic and produced succinic and acetic acids, with small amounts of propionic acid, as metabolic end products. The major cellular fatty acids of strain Rs-03T were anteiso-C15 : 0, C18 : 1ω9c and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. The major menaquinones were MK-10 and MK-9 and the genomic DNA G+C content was 44.9 mol%. Based on these data, strain Rs-03T represents a novel species in the genus Bacteroides , for which the name Bacteroides reticulotermitis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Rs-03T ( = JCM 10512T = CCUG 62153T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.040931-0