@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002838, author = "Sheu, Shih-Yi and Chen, Wei-Ting and Young, Chiu-Chung and Chen, Wen-Ming", title = "Rheinheimera coerulea sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater creek, and emended description of genus Rheinheimera Brettar et al. 2002", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2018", volume = "68", number = "7", pages = "2340-2347", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002838", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002838", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "Rheinheimera coerulea", keywords = "Chromatiaceae", keywords = "Proteobacteria", keywords = "Gammaproteobacteria", keywords = "new taxa", keywords = "Chromatiales", abstract = "A bacterial strain designated TAPG2T was isolated from a freshwater creek in Taiwan and characterized using the polyphasic taxonomic approach. Cells of TAPG2T were Gram-stain negative, aerobic, motile, non-spore forming, short rods surrounded by a thick capsules and forming cream to dark-green colonies. Growth occurred at 15–37 °C (optimum, 25–30 °C), at pH 6.5–8 (optimum, pH 7) and with 0–1 % NaCl (optimum, 0.5 %). The major fatty acids (>10 %) of TAPG2T were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), C16 : 0 and C18 : 1ω7c. The polar lipid profile consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, an uncharacterized aminophospholipid, an uncharacterized phospholipid, an uncharacterized aminolipid and an uncharacterized lipid. The polyamine profile was composed of the major compound putrescine and moderate amounts of spermidine. The only isoprenoid quinone was Q-8. The DNA G+C content was 53.6 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that TAPG2T represented a member of the genus Rheinheimera and was most closely related to Rheinheimera aquatica GR5T and Rheinheimera texasensis A62-14BT with 98.6 and 98.2 % 16S rRNA gene sequence identities, respectively. However, DNA–DNA hybridization values of TAPG2T with type strains of the species with validly published names were lower than 30 %. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic inference, demonstrate that TAPG2T should be classified as representing a novel species of the genus Rheinheimera , for which the name Rheinheimera coerulea sp. nov. is presented. The type strain is TAPG2T (=BCRC 81054T=LMG 30056T=KCTC 52815T).", }