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Aminobacter ciceronei sp. nov. and Aminobacter lissarensis sp. nov., isolated from various terrestrial environments

Ian R. McDonald^1,, Peter Kämpfer², Ed Topp³, Karen L. Warner¹, Michael J. Cox¹, Tracy L. Connell Hancock⁴, Laurence G. Miller⁴, Michael J. Larkin⁵, Veronique Ducrocq⁵, Catherine Coulter⁶, David B. Harper⁶, J. Colin Murrell¹ and Ronald S. Oremland⁴

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
² Institut für Angewandte Mikrobiologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, D-35390 Giessen, Germany
³ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada N5V 4T3
⁴ US Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd, MS 480, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
⁵ Questor Centre, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5AG, UK
⁶ School of Agriculture and Food Science, Queen's University Belfast, Newforge Lane, Belfast BT9 5PX, UK

Correspondence
Ian R. McDonald
i.mcdonald{at}waikato.ac.nz

The bacterial strains IMB-1^T and CC495^T, which are capable of growth on methyl chloride (CH₃Cl, chloromethane) and methyl bromide (CH₃Br, bromomethane), were isolated from agricultural soil in California fumigated with CH₃Br, and woodland soil in Northern Ireland, respectively. Two pesticide-/herbicide-degrading bacteria, strains ER2 and C147, were isolated from agricultural soil in Canada. Strain ER2 degrades N-methyl carbamate insecticides, and strain C147 degrades triazine herbicides widely used in agriculture. On the basis of their morphological, physiological and genotypic characteristics, these four strains are considered to represent two novel species of the genus Aminobacter, for which the names Aminobacter ciceronei sp. nov. (type strain IMB-1^T=ATCC 202197^T=CIP 108660^T=CCUG 50580^T; strains ER2 and C147) and Aminobacter lissarensis sp. nov. (type strain CC495^T=NCIMB 13798^T=CIP 108661^T=CCUG 50579^T) are proposed.

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains IMB-1^T, ER2, C147 and CC495^T are AF034798, L20802, AF246220 and AF107722, respectively.

Present address: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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