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Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis sp. nov., a genome-sequenced marine member of the family Flavobacteriaceae

¹ Marine Microbiology, Department of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Kalmar, SE-39182 Kalmar, Sweden
² School of Agricultural Science, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 54, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia
³ Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far-Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pr. 100 Let Vladivostoku 159, 690022, Vladivostok, Russia
⁴ Institut de Ciències del Mar-CMIMA (CSIC), Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, E-08003 Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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Jarone Pinhassi
jarone.pinhassi{at}hik.se

Bacteria in the family Flavobacteriaceae are increasingly recognized to play important roles in the degradation of organic matter during and following algal blooms. A novel heterotrophic, rod-shaped, aerobic, yellow-pigmented and gliding bacterium was isolated from a seawater sample collected in the Bay of Blanes in the north-western Mediterranean Sea. Analysis of its 16S rRNA gene sequence, retrieved from the whole-genome sequence, showed that the bacterium was closely related to members of the genus Leeuwenhoekiella within the family Flavobacteriaceae, phylum Bacteroidetes. Phenotypic, genotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses supported the creation of a novel species to accommodate this bacterium, for which the name Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MED 217^T (=CECT 7118^T=CCUG 51940^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene sequences of strain MED 217^T are DQ294290 and DQ294291 for two copies of the gene. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the genome sequence is AANC00000000.

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