%0 Journal Article %A Ren, Mengnan %A Li, Xiaoyan %A Zhang, Yueqi %A Jin, Yu %A Li, Siqi %A Huang, Haidong %T Massilia armeniaca sp. nov., isolated from desert soil %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 7 %P 2319-2324 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002836 %K Massilia armeniaca %K Proteobacteria %K taxonomy %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, motile and rod-shaped bacterium, strain ZMN-3T, was isolated from desert soil sample collected from Ongniod Qi, Inner Mongolia, China. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain ZMN-3T was affiliated with the genus Massilia and showed the highest similarity to Massilia humi THG S6-8T (98.9 %) and Massilia buxea A9T (98.2 %). In partial gyrB and lepA sequences, the highest similarity of strain ZMN-3T and M. humi THG S6-8T were 95.9 and 96.8 %, respectively. The DNA–DNA hybridization value between strain ZMN-3T and its closely related type strains were all below 70 %. The major respiratory quinone of strain ZMN-3T was Q-8 and the major cellular fatty acids consisted of summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) and C16 : 0. The predominant polar lipids contained diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine and an unidentified phospholipid. The DNA G+C content of strain ZMN-3T was 66.3 mol%. On the basis of this polyphasic taxonomic study, strain ZMN-3T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Massilia , for which the name Massilia armeniaca sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is ZMN-3T (=CGMCC 1.16209T=DSM 104676T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002836