Belliella buryatensis sp. nov., isolated from alkaline lake water Kozyreva, Lyudmila and Egorova, Darya and Anan'ina, Lyudmila and Plotnikova, Elena and Ariskina, Elena and Prisyazhnaya, Natalya and Radnaeva, Larisa and Namsaraev, Bair,, 66, 137-143 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000682, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Two bacterial isolates from water of the alkaline brackish Lake Solenoe (Buryatia, Russia), 2C and 5CT, were characterized by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. The strains were small, non-motile, Gram-stain-negative rods that formed small orange–red colonies on the surface of marine agar. Studies based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the strains were related closely to Belliella pelovolcani CC-SAL-25T (98.7 % sequence similarity). The G+C content of the DNA was 38–40 mol%. DNA–DNA hybridization values between strains 2C and 5CT and B. pelovolcani CC-SAL-25T were 56–58 mol%. A menaquinone with seven isoprene units (MK-7) was the major respiratory quinone. The fatty acid profiles were slightly different from that of B. pelovolcani CC-SAL-25T. The novel strains could be distinguished from the phylogenetically closest species B. pelovolcani CC-SAL-25T based on matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectra of whole cells and a range of physiological and biochemical characteristics. The data obtained suggest that strains 2C and 5CT represent a novel species of the genus Belliella, for which the name Belliella buryatensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 5CT ( = VKM B-2724T = KCTC 32194T)., language=, type=