Flavobacterium suzhouense sp. nov., isolated from farmland river sludge Zhang, Hao and Cheng, Ming-gen and Sun, Bin and Guo, Su-hui and Song, Man and Li, Qiang and Huang, Xing,, 65, 370-374 (2015), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.068932-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-stain-negative bacterium, designated XIN-1T, was isolated from a farmland river sludge sample in Suzhou, China. Cells of strain XIN-1T were strictly aerobic, non-motile and rod-shaped. Strain XIN-1T grew optimally at pH 7.0 and 28 °C. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain XIN-1T was most closely related to Flavobacterium hauense BX12T (98.2 % sequence similarity), followed by Flavobacterium beibuense F44-8T (96.3 %). The major respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6 and the major polar lipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The major fatty acids (>5 %) were summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), summed feature 4 (comprising iso-C17 : 1 I and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B), iso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain XIN-1T was 39.8 mol%. Strain XIN-1T showed low DNA–DNA relatedness with F. hauense BX12T (38.7±0.5 %). On the basis of genotypic and phenotypic data, strain XIN-1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Flavobacterium , for which the name Flavobacterium suzhouense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is XIN-1T ( = CCTCC AB 2014200T = KCTC 42107T)., language=, type=