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Ruegeria mobilis sp. nov., a member of the Alphaproteobacteria isolated in Japan and Palau

¹ Biological Resource Center (NBRC), Department of Biotechnology, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu, Chiba 292-0818, Japan
² Marine Biotechnology Institute Co., Ltd, Kamaishi, Iwate 026-0001, Japan

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Yuki Muramatsu
muramatsu-yuki{at}nite.go.jp

The taxonomic positions of two bacterial strains, MBIC01146^T and MBIC01099, isolated from marine environments of Japan and Palau, respectively, were determined by using a polyphasic approach. The bacteria were aerobic, motile, Gram-negative rods and formed star-shaped aggregations. The G+C content of the genomic DNA ranged from 58.5 to 58.7 mol%. The major respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10 and the predominant cellular fatty acids were C_{16 : 0}, C_{18 : 1}6c and C_{18 : 1}7c. 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses based on both neighbour-joining and maximum-parsimony methods revealed that strains MBIC01146^T and MBIC01099 were positioned within the cluster comprising Ruegeria atlantica and Silicibacter lacuscaerulensis within subgroup -3 of the Proteobacteria. The phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics of the novel strains were similar to those of Ruegeria atlantica; however, DNA–DNA hybridization tests showed that the isolates represented an independent species. The isolates could be differentiated from Ruegeria atlantica based on several characteristics. Therefore, strains MBIC01146^T and MBIC01099 are considered to represent a novel species of the genus Ruegeria, for which the name Ruegeria mobilis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MBIC01146^T (=NBRC 101030^T=CIP 109181^T). An emended description of Ruegeria atlantica Uchino et al. 1999 is also given.

A maximum-parsimony tree showing the phylogenetic positions of strains MBIC01146^T and MBIC01099 based on 16S rRNA gene sequences is available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.

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