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Leucobacter iarius sp. nov., in the family Microbacteriaceae

¹ Division of Nematology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India
² DSMZ – German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Inhoffenstrasse 7b, 38124 Braunschweig, Germany

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Rüdiger Pukall
rpu{at}dsmz.de

A novel Gram-positive bacterium, strain 40^T, was isolated in the course of identifying bacteria from infective juveniles of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema thermophilum. Based on 16S rRNA gene analysis, strain 40^T was found to be related to the type strains of recognized species of the genus Leucobacter, family Microbacteriaceae. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of strain 40^T and Leucobacter albus IAM 14851^T, Leucobacter luti LMG 23118^T, Leucobacter alluvii LMG 23117^T, Leucobacter komagatae DSM 8803^T, Leucobacter chromiireducens CIP 108389^T and Leucobacter aridicollis CIP 108388^T, respectively, were 97.3, 97.5, 97.6, 97.6, 97.6 and 98.5 %. Chemotaxonomic analysis also supported the affiliation of strain 40^T to the genus Leucobacter: the major menaquinone was MK-11, the peptidoglycan cross-linkage was of the B-type, the cell wall diamino acid was L-diaminobutyric acid and the major fatty acids were anteiso-C_{15 : 0} (42 %), anteiso-C_{17 : 0} (34 %) and iso-C_{16 : 0} (16 %). Based upon the biochemical and genomic analyses, strain 40^T is sufficiently distinct from the type strains of recognized Leucobacter species to warrant the description of a novel species, for which the name Leucobacter iarius sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain 40^T (=DSM 17402^T=CIP 108831^T).

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