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Rubritalea marina gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine representative of the phylum ‘Verrucomicrobia’, isolated from a sponge (Porifera)

¹ Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Universität Würzburg, Röntgenring 11, D-97070 Würzburg, Germany
² Lehrstuhl für Organische Chemie 1, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany

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Ute Hentschel
ute.hentschel{at}mail.uni-wuerzburg.de

A marine bacterium, strain Pol012^T, was isolated from the Mediterranean sponge Axinella polypoides and subsequently characterized as belonging to subphylum 1 of the phylum ‘Verrucomicrobia’. Strain Pol012^T was non-motile, Gram-negative, coccoid or rod-shaped and red in colour. The menaquinones MK-8 and MK-9 were detected. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 50.9 mol%. Growth was possible at temperatures between 8 and 30 °C and at pH values between 6.8 and 8.2. The closest cultured relative of strain Pol012^T was Akkermansia muciniphila (83 % sequence similarity), while the closest environmental 16S rRNA gene sequence was the marine clone Arctic96BD-2 (95 % sequence similarity). Strain Pol012^T is the first marine pure-culture representative of ‘Verrucomicrobia’ subphylum 1 and represents a novel genus and species, for which the name Rubritalea marina gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is Pol012^T (=DSM 177716^T=CIP 108984^T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain Pol012^T is DQ302104, and those for verrucomicrobial 16S rRNA gene sequences from sponges and seawater are DQ302105–DQ302120.

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