%0 Journal Article %A Gao, Caixia %A Han, Jin %A Liu, Zhenmin %A Xu, Xiaofen %A Hang, Feng %A Wu, Zhengjun %T Paenibacillus bovis sp. nov., isolated from raw yak (Bos grunniens) milk %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 3 %P 1413-1418 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000900 %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain BD3526T, isolated from raw yak milk collected in Tibet, China, was studied to determine its taxonomic status. The strain was Gram-reaction positive, motile, catalase-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic. The DNA G+C content of the strain was 47.5 mol% and its peptidoglycan contained meso-diaminopimelic acid. The predominant menaquinone was MK-7. The major cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0 and C16 : 0. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, similarities among strain BD3526T and its most closely related species, Paenibacillus shenyangensis A9T, ‘Paenibacillus dauci’ H9, ‘Paenibacillus wulumuqiensis’ Y24 and Paenibacillus hunanensis DSM 22170T were 99.0, 98.5, 97.3 and 96.7 %, respectively. Levels of DNA–DNA relatedness among strain BD3526T and P. hunanensis DSM 22170T and Paenibacillus polymyxa ATCC 842T ( = DSM 36T), the type species of the genus, were 41.2 and 45.6 %, respectively. In silico genome-to-genome comparison showed that the DNA–DNA hybridization values among strain BD3526T and P. shenyangensis A9T, ‘P. dauci’ H9 and ‘P. wulumuqiensis’ Y24 were lower than 70 %. Based on its molecular and physiological properties, strain BD3526T ( = DSM 28815T = CGMCC 8333T) is identified as the type strain of a novel species within the genus Paenibacillus, for which the name Paenibacillus bovis is proposed. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000900