Meiothermus luteus sp. nov., a slightly thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring Habib, Neeli and Khan, Inam Ullah and Hussain, Firasat and Zhou, En-Min and Xiao, Min and Dong, Lei and Zhi, Xiao-Yang and Li, Wen-Jun,, 67, 2910-2914 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002040, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A slightly thermophilic, aerobic bacterium, designated YIM 72257T, was isolated from a sediment sample taken from a hot spring in Tengchong county, Yunnan province, south-west China. The isolate was Gram-stain-negative, non-sporulating and forms non-motile rods, appearing in chains. The isolate grew at 50–65 °C, pH 6.0–9.0 and with 0.5–1 % NaCl (w/v). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain YIM 72257T was most closely related to Meiothermus cateniformans LY1T (95.6 %), Meiothermus ruber DSM 1279T (95.1 %) and Meiothermus taiwanensis WR-30T (94.6 %). The genomic DNA G+C content of strain YIM 72257T was 62.6 mol%. The main cellular fatty acids (>5 %) were anteiso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C17 : 0, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and C16 : 0. The polar lipids consisted of an uncharacterized phospholipid and two glycolipids. Based on phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain YIM 72257T is proposed to be a representative of a novel species of the genus Meiothermus , for which the name Meiothermus luteus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YIM 72257T (=KCTC 52599T=CCTCC AB 2017100T)., language=, type=