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Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57 (2007), 1919-1924; DOI  10.1099/ijs.0.64801-0
© 2007 International Union of Microbiological Societies

Thalassococcus halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel halotolerant member of the Roseobacter clade isolated from the marine sponge Halichondria panicea at Friday Harbor, USA

On On Lee1, Mandy M. Y. Tsoi1, Xiancui Li1, Po-Keung Wong2 and Pei-Yuan Qian1

1 Coastal Marine Laboratory/Department of Biology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
2 Department of Biology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N. T., Hong Kong SAR

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Pei-Yuan Qian
boqianpy{at}ust.hk

A Gram-negative, non-pigmented, ovoid-shaped, strictly aerobic, catalase- and oxidase-positive and highly halotolerant bacterial strain that was devoid of swimming and gliding motility, designated UST050418-052T, was isolated from the surface of the marine sponge Halichondria panicea at Friday Harbor, WA, USA. Strain UST050418-052T required NaCl for growth and could tolerate salt concentrations of up to 18 %. The primary respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-10 and the DNA G+C content was 57.8 mol%. The predominant fatty acids were the saturated fatty acids 16 : 0 and 18 : 0 and the monounsaturated fatty acids 18 : 1{omega}7c and 18 : 1{omega}9c, altogether representing 82.9 % of the total. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence placed UST050418-052T in a distinct lineage within the Roseobacter clade in the family Rhodobacteraceae, with 95.0–95.8 % sequence similarity to members of the nearest genus Thalassobius. The DNA–DNA relatedness between UST050418-052T and Thalassobius gelatinovorus IAM 12617T was 9 %. Strain UST050418-052T could be differentiated from closely related members of the Roseobacter clade by a number of chemotaxonomic and phenotypic characteristics such as its distinct fatty acid profile, ability to reduce nitrate to nitrite and inability to utilize citrate, succinate, L-arginine and pyruvate. Based on the phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic and phenotypic evidence presented in this study, we suggest that strain UST050418-052T represents a novel genus in the family Rhodobacteraceae. The name Thalassococcus halodurans gen. nov., sp. nov., is thus proposed. The type strain of Thalassococcus halodurans is UST050418-052T (=JCM 13833T =NRRL B-41465T).

The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain UST050418-052T is DQ397336.

Scanning electron micrographs of cells of strain UST050418-052T are available as supplementary material with the online version of this paper.






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