%0 Journal Article %A Han, Ming-Xian %A Dong, Lei %A Asem, Mipeshwaree Devi %A Jiao, Jian-Yu %A Wang, Dong %A Liu, Feng %A Yang, Zi-Wen %A Xiao, Min %A Salam, Nimaichand %A Li, Wen-Jun %T Botryobacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Hymenobacteraceae %D 2019 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 69 %N 3 %P 821-827 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003247 %K Botryobacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov. %K Hymenobacteraceae %K Gurbantunggut desert %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain SYSU D60016T, a rod-shaped bacterium that tends to form clusters, was isolated from a soil sample collected from the Gurbantunggut desert, China. Cells were Gram-stain-negative, catalase-negative and oxidase-positive. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain SYSU D60016T shared less than 94 % sequence identity with members of the family Hymenobacteraceae . The strain exhibited growth at 15–50 °C, pH 6–8 and in the presence of up to 3 % (w/v) NaCl. Its chemotaxonomic features included MK-7 as the respiratory menaquinone, iso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 4 (iso-C17 : 1 I and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B) as major cellular fatty acids and phosphatidylethanolamine as the main polar lipid. The DNA G+C content was determined to be 50.1 % (genome). Analyses of the phylogenetic data and differences in the chemotaxonomic and biochemical features from related genera in the family Hymenobacteraceae indicated that strain SYSU D60016T merits representation of a novel species of a novel genus in the family Hymenobacteraceae . The name Botryobacter ruber gen. nov., sp. nov. is, therefore, proposed to represent the phylogenetic position of strain SYSU D60016T in the family Hymenobacteraceae . The type strain of the proposed new taxon is SYSU D60016T (=KCTC 52794T=NBRC 112957T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003247