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Halorubrum ejinorense sp. nov., isolated from Lake Ejinor, Inner Mongolia, China

¹ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
² Noda Institute for Scientific Research, 399 Noda, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278-0037, Japan
³ State Key Laboratory of Microbial Resources, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100080 Beijing, People's Republic of China
⁴ Department of Biotechnology, University of the Western Cape, Bellville 7535, Cape Town, South Africa
⁵ Genencor International BV, Archimedesweg 30, 2333 CN Leiden, The Netherlands
⁶ Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, UK

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A. Ventosa
ventosa{at}us.es

A novel halophilic archaeon, strain EJ-32^T, was isolated from water from Lake Ejinor in Inner Mongolia, China. The taxonomy of strain EJ-32^T was studied by using a polyphasic approach. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, strain EJ-32^T was shown to be phylogenetically related to Halorubrum coriense (97.9 %), Halorubrum trapanicum (97.9 %), Halorubrum sodomense (97.8 %), Halorubrum tebenquichense (97.8 %), Halorubrum xinjiangense (97.6 %), Halorubrum terrestre (97.4 %), Halorubrum distributum (97.1 %) and Halorubrum saccharovorum (96.4 %). Strain EJ-32^T was found to be neutrophilic, non-motile and Gram-negative. It grew in medium containing saturation concentrations of NaCl and did not require magnesium for optimal growth. The G+C content of the DNA is 64.0 mol%. Values for DNA–DNA hybridization with respect to phylogenetically related Halorubrum species were 49 %, indicating that EJ-32^T constitutes a different genospecies. The data show that strain EJ-32^T represents a novel species of the genus Halorubrum, for which the name Halorubrum ejinorense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is EJ-32^T (=CECT 7194^T=CGMCC 1.6782^T=JCM 14265^T).

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