%0 Journal Article %A Fang, Hao %A Lv, Wanyu %A Huang, Zhou %A Liu, Shuang-Jiang %A Yang, Hong %T Gryllotalpicola reticulitermitis sp. nov., isolated from a termite gut %D 2015 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 65 %N Pt_1 %P 85-89 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.062984-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain TS-56T was isolated from the gut of a wood-feeding termite, Reticulitermes chinensis Snyder. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the strain represented a member of the genus Gryllotalpicola of the family Microbacteriaceae , with sequence similarities to other species of the genus ranging from 96.6 % to 97.8 %. The isolate was Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, with light yellow colonies and irregular short rod-shaped cells (0.4–0.6 µm in diameter, 0.6–1.0 µm in length). Growth of TS-56T occurred at 20–35 °C (optimum, 30 °C) and at pH 4.0–8.0 (optimum, pH 5.0). The peptidoglycan of TS-56T contained ornithine, glutamic acid, alanine, homoserine and glycine. The acyl type was acetyl. The most abundant cellular fatty acid of TS-56T was cyclohexyl-C17 : 0 (88.79 %). The respiratory menaquinone was MK-11. The polar lipid profile contained disphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylinositol and two unknown glycolipids. DNA of the type strain had a G+C content of 67.4 mol%. On the basis of the phylogenetic properties and phenotypic distinctiveness, TS-56T represents a novel species of the genus Gryllotalpicola , for which the name Gryllotalpicola reticulitermitis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is TS-56T ( = CGMCC 1.10363T = NBRC 109838T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.062984-0