Paracoccus salipaludis sp. nov., isolated from saline–alkaline soil Dong, Xiaoyan and Zhang, Guishan and Xiong, Qin and Liu, Di and Wang, Dandan and Liu, Yunpeng and Wu, Gengwei and Li, Pan and Luo, Yu and Zhang, Ruifu,, 68, 3812-3817 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003065, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-stain-negative, short ovoid- to coccus-shaped, aerobic, non-flagellated, and nonmotile strain, designated WN007T, was isolated from the natural saline–alkali wetland soil. Growth occurred at 10–45 °C (optimum 33–37 °C), pH 6.5–10.0 (optimum, pH 7.5–8.0) and with 0–15 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2–4 % NaCl). Catalase- and oxidase-positive. A comparison of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of WN007T showed the highest sequence similarities to Paracoccus chinensis (97.5 %) and Paracoccus niistensis (97.4 %). The major respiratory quinone of strain WN007T was Q10 and the fatty acid profile of strain WN007T contained a predominant amount of summed feature 7 and small quantities of C10 : 0 3OH, C16 : 00 and C18 : 00. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, glycolipid, aminolipid and lipid. The genome revealed that the G+C content was 63.9 mol% and the DNA–DNA relatedness values between strain WN007T and the type strains of P. chinensis CGMCC 1.7655Tand P. niistensis KCTC 22789T were 46.9±2.3 and 42.4±1.7 %, respectively. This was also confirmed by the low average nucleotide identity values (<83.5 %) between strain WN007T and the most closely related recognized Paracoccus species. According to these results, strain WN007T represents a novel species of the genus Paracoccus , for which the name Paracoccus salipaludis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is WN007T (=KCTC 52851T=ACCC 19972T)., language=, type=