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Kocuria himachalensis sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from the Indian Himalayas

¹ Microbial Type Culture Collection and Gene Bank (MTCC), Institute of Microbial Technology, Sector 39-A, Chandigarh, 160 036, India
² DSMZ – Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
³ Department of Microbiology, Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), Amritsar, 143 005, India

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S. Mayilraj
mayil{at}imtech.res.in

A reddish orange bacterium, strain K07-05^T, was isolated from soil during a study of the bacterial diversity of a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas and was studied by using a polyphasic approach. The organism had morphological and chemotaxonomic properties consistent with its classification in the genus Kocuria. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain K07-05^T was closely related to Kocuria rosea DSM 20447^T and Kocuria polaris MTCC 3702^T (98.1 and 97.8 % sequence similarity, respectively), whereas the sequence similarity values with respect to the other Kocuria species with validly published names were between 96.4 and 94.2 %. However, the genomic relatedness, as shown by DNA–DNA hybridization, of strain K07-05^T and K. polaris MTCC 3702^T is 49.5 % and that with K. rosea MTCC 2522^T is 24.0 %. The DNA G+C content of the strain is 75.3 mol%. The above data in combination with the phenotypic distinctiveness of K07-05^T clearly indicate that the strain represents a novel species, for which the name Kocuria himachalensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is K07-05^T (=MTCC 7020^T=DSM 44905^T=JCM 13326^T).

The fatty acid compositions of strain K07-05^T and closely related type strains of the genus Kocuria are presented in a supplementary table available in IJSEM Online.

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