Balneola vulgaris gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes from the north-western Mediterranean Sea

Laurent Urios (1) , Hélène Agogué (1) , Françoise Lesongeur (2) , Erko Stackebrandt (3) , Philippe Lebaron (1)

1 LOMIC - Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne
2 LM2E - Laboratoire de Microbiologie des Environnements Extrêmophiles
3 DSMZ - Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH / Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures

A novel aerobic, Gram-negative bacterium, named 13IX/A01/164 T , was isolated from surface waters in the coastal northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Cells were motile, straight rods, 2,5 mm long and 0,2 mm wide, and formed orange colonies on marine agar medium. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain 13IX/A01/164 T was 42 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence placed the strain in the phylum Bacteroidetes within the family Crenotrichaceae. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison and physiological and biochemical characteristics, this isolate represents a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Balneola vulgaris gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Balneola vulgaris is 13IX/A01/164 T (=DSM 17893T=CIP 109092T=OOB 256T).

Domaines: Biodiversité et Ecologie; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie; Bactériologie

Laurent Urios, Hélène Agogué, Françoise Lesongeur, Erko Stackebrandt, Philippe Lebaron. Balneola vulgaris gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes from the north-western Mediterranean Sea. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2006, 56 (8), pp.1883-1887. ⟨10.1099/ijs.0.64285-0⟩. ⟨hal-01355090⟩