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Salicola marasensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an extremely halophilic bacterium isolated from the Maras solar salterns in Peru

¹ División de Microbiología, Departamento de Fisiología, Genética y Microbiología, Universidad de Alicante, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
² Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marqués 21, E-07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Illes Balears, Spain

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Ramon Rosselló-Mora
rossello-mora{at}uib.es

Six strains of extremely halophilic bacteria were isolated from several crystallizer ponds of the Maras solar salterns in the Peruvian Andes. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, G+C contents and DNA–DNA hybridization results, the six isolates constituted a genomically homogeneous group affiliated with the Gammaproteobacteria. The closest relatives were members of the halophilic genera Halovibrio and Halospina, which showed 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities below 97 % and whole-genome hybridization levels below 33 % for the type strain, 7Sm5^T. From the genomic and phenotypic properties of the six novel isolates and phylogenetic reconstruction based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, they can be considered to represent a novel genus within the Gammaproteobacteria. On the basis of the taxonomic study, a novel genus, Salicola gen. nov., is proposed containing the single species Salicola marasensis sp. nov., which is the type species. The type strain of Salicola marasensis is 7Sm5^T (=CECT 7107^T=CIP 108835^T).

Details of the reference sequences used in the construction of Fig. 1 are available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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