%0 Journal Article %A Zhang, De-Chao %A Schumann, Peter %A Wu, Jiang %A França, Luís %A Neuner, Kathrin %A Margesin, Rosa %T Virgibacillus flavescens sp. nov., isolated from marine sediment %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 3 %P 1138-1143 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000846 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-variable, rod-shaped, motile bacterial strain, designated S1-20T, was isolated from marine sediment of the Yellow Sea in China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain S1-20T was related to the genus Virgibacillus and had highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities with the type strains of Virgibacillus necropolis (98.1 %), Virgibacillus arcticus (97.7 %) and Virgibacillus carmonensis (97.3 %). The predominant cellular fatty acids of strain S1-20T were anteiso-C15 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0. The main menaquinone was MK-7. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain S1-20T was 38.3 mol%. The polar lipids profile contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, five unidentified phospholipids, one unknown aminophospholipid and an aminolipid. Combined data from phenotypic, phylogenetic and DNA–DNA relatedness studies demonstrated that strain S1-20T is a representative of a novel species of the genus Virgibacillus, for which the name Virgibacillus flavescens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S1-20T ( = LMG 28381T = DSM 29015T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000846