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Reclassification of Flavobacterium resinovorum Delaporte and Daste 1956 as Novosphingobium resinovorum comb. nov., with Novosphingobium subarcticum (Nohynek et al. 1996) Takeuchi et al. 2001 as a later heterotypic synonym

¹ Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Seoul National University, 56-1 Shillim-dong, Kwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea
² School of Biological Sciences and Institute of Microbiology, Seoul National University, 56-1 Shillim-dong, Kwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea

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Jongsik Chun
jchun{at}snu.ac.kr

The taxonomic status of Flavobacterium resinovorum Delaporte and Daste 1956 (Approved Lists 1980) was investigated using a polyphasic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of F. resinovorum NCIMB 8767^T was almost identical to that of the type strain of Novosphingobium subarcticum (Nohynek et al. 1996) Takeuchi et al. 2001, with 99.85 % sequence similarity. The DNA–DNA relatedness value between the type strains of these species was 100 %. Phenotypic comparison based on API 20E, API NE and API ZYM kits demonstrated that the type strains of F. resinovorum and N. subarcticum were also indistinguishable based on their biochemical properties. On the basis of genotypic and phenotypic evidence, it is therefore proposed to reclassify Flavobacterium resinovorum as Novosphingobium resinovorum comb. nov., with the type strain NCIMB 8767^T =ATCC 33545^T =DSM 7478^T =LMG 8367^T, and that Novosphingobium subarcticum is a later heterotypic synonym of Novosphingobium resinovorum.

Details of API test results and fatty acid compositions for F. resinovorum NCIMB 8767^T and N. subarcticum KCTC 2890^T are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.