@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64309-0, author = "Saha, P. and Chakrabarti, T.", title = "Flavobacterium indicum sp. nov., isolated from warm spring water in Assam, India", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2006", volume = "56", number = "11", pages = "2617-2621", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64309-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64309-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "A polyphasic taxonomic approach was employed to characterize a strain designated GPTSA100-9T, which was isolated from water sampled from a warm spring. The micro-organism, comprising Gram-negative, strictly aerobic rods, could not grow on nutritionally rich media such as tryptic soy broth. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence (1396 nt) of strain GPTSA100-9T revealed that it is a member of the genus Flavobacterium, sharing 99.8 % sequence similarity with the CFB group bacterium strain A0653 (AF236016), 93.4 % with ‘[Flexibacter] aurantiacus subsp. excathedrus’ and 93.2–92.0 % with Flavobacterium saliperosum, Flavobacterium soli, Flavobacterium aquatile and Flavobacterium columnare. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 31.0 mol%. The major fatty acids of the strain grown on modified R2A agar were iso-C15 : 0 (18.5 %), iso-C15 : 1 G (18.0 %), summed feature 3 (iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1 ω7c, 16.6 %) and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (9.0 %). On the basis of phenotypic and genotypic characteristics, strain GPTSA100-9T represents a novel species of the genus Flavobacterium, for which the name Flavobacterium indicum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GPTSA100-9T (=MTCC 6936T=DSM 17447T).", }