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1 Fermentation Biotechnology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA, Agricultural Research Service, 1815 N. University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA
2 School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
3 Culture Collection, Department of Clinical Bacteriology, University of Göteborg, SE-413 46 Göteborg, Sweden
4 Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-0245, USA
Correspondence
Terence R. Whitehead
whitehtr{at}ncaur.usda.gov
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The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CCUG 50528T is AF319778.
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; Yasuhara & Fuwa, 1979; Yasuhara et al., 1984; Zahn et al., 1997). There is presently a paucity of data about the types of micro-organisms that reside in stored manure and that are responsible for production of odorous compounds. During the course of an ongoing study into the microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance present within manure storage pits (Cotta et al., 2003; Whitehead & Cotta, 2001), we characterized two strains of anaerobic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped organisms of uncertain taxonomic position. Based on the results of a polyphasic taxonomic study, it is proposed that the isolates be assigned to a novel species of the genus Bacteroides, as Bacteroides coprosuis sp. nov.
Isolates PC139T and PC111 were recovered from a manure storage pit from a swine facility near Peoria, IL, USA, where the feeder pigs were fed a corn–soybean-based diet. Samples (50–100 ml) from manure storage pits were collected using a Tank Sampler and transferred to Whirl-Pak sampling bags (both NASCO). Samples were kept on ice until return to the laboratory. Isolations and enumerations were performed by plating samples that were serially diluted in anaerobic buffer [RGM medium (see below) with volatile fatty acids, yeast extract and trypticase omitted] onto habitat-simulating media containing either 40 % (v/v) substrate-depleted rumen fluid (RF medium; Dehority & Grubb, 1976; Leedle & Hespell, 1980) or 80 % (v/v) clarified swine-manure slurry [slurry medium; spun at 8000 g, 20 min, 4 °C (Cotta et al., 2003)]. The media used in these experiments were prepared anaerobically using the method of Hungate as modified by Bryant (1972). The basic media contained macrominerals, microminerals, buffers, reducing agents and other components as in the routine growth medium (RGM) as described by Hespell et al. (1987) or anaerobic BHI medium as described by Whitehead & Flint (1995). No additional volatile fatty acids were added to slurry-containing media. Glucose, xylose, cellobiose, maltose, starch (0·05 % w/v each) and peptone (0·3 % w/v) were provided as complex carbon, nitrogen and energy sources. Identical media were prepared containing 10 µg tylosin or erythromycin ml–1 to investigate potential resistance to these antibiotics. Plates were incubated anaerobically in a Coy Anaerobic chamber in a 96 % carbon dioxide, 4 % hydrogen atmosphere. Plates were initially incubated at room temperature (approximately 24 °C) for manure slurry samples to simulate the pit environment (Cotta et al., 2003). The new isolates were subsequently found to grow equally well at 37 °C. Single colonies were picked and repeatedly streaked out until pure cultures were obtained. For morphological and physiological studies, strains were grown on RGM medium with 0·2 % carbohydrate or on BHI medium. For antibiotic testing, suspensions of the bacterial isolates were grown on anaerobic complex medium containing the appropriate antibiotic. The strains were characterized biochemically by using a combination of conventional tests as described previously (Holdeman et al., 1977) and the API Rapid ID32An and API ZYM systems (API bioMérieux) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Absence of spores was determined by visual examination as well as by incubation of the cultures in 95 % ethanol followed by plating onto anaerobic agar medium. Determination of the DNA G+C content was carried out by thermal denaturation of chromosomal DNA using a Beckman model DU 640 spectrophotometer equipped with a high-performance temperature controller and Tm analysis software (Johnson, 1994). 16S rRNA gene fragments were generated by PCR using universal primers pA (positions 8–28, Escherichia coli numbering) and pH* (positions 1542–1522). The amplified products were purified by using a QIAquick PCR purification kit and sequenced directly using primers to conserved regions of the 16S rRNA gene. Sequencing was performed using a PRISM Taq Dyedeoxy Terminator cycle sequencing kit (Applied Biosystems) and an automatic DNA sequencer (model 373A; Applied Biosystems). The closest known relatives of the new isolates were identified by performing database searches using the program FASTA (Pearson & Lipman, 1988). These sequences and those of other known related strains were retrieved from GenBank and aligned with the newly determined sequence using the program SEQTOOLS (S. W. Rasmussen; http://www.seqtools.dk). The resulting multiple sequence alignment was corrected manually using the program GENEDOC (Nicholas et al., 1997), and a phylogenetic tree was constructed according to the neighbour-joining method (Saitou & Nei, 1987) with the programs SEQTOOLS and TREEVIEW (Page, 1996); the stability of the groupings was estimated by bootstrap analysis (1000 replications) using the same programs.
Cells of the two isolates originating from pig-manure slurries, PC139T and PC111, were anaerobic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-negative rods. Typical cells are 0·8–3·0 µm by 0·5–1·5 µm in size. Colonies grown on BHI agar plates after 48 h incubation at 37 °C under 96 % CO2/4 % H2 gas phase are cream, circular, convex, entire and opaque and reach a diameter of 1 mm. They hydrolysed aesculin and starch but failed to reduce nitrate to nitrite and were indole-negative. Growth was observed in RGM containing glucose, maltose and chondroitin sulfate, but no growth was obtained with arabinogalactan, arabinose, cellobiose, corn-fibre xylan, corn-spelt xylan, fructose or xylose. Strains grew at temperatures from 25 to 37 °C, but not at 42 or 45 °C, with an optimum of 37 °C. Strains were resistant to 20 % bile. Gelatin was not liquefied. Analysis of the end products of metabolism from BHI broth revealed acetic acid (8·0–15·0 mM), succinic acid (7·5–10·0 mM) and propionic acid (4·0–22 mM). Using the API Rapid ID32AN test system, the unknown manure isolates were positive for alkaline phosphatase, alanine arylamidase, arginine arylamidase, 
-fucosidase, 
-galactosidase, -glucosidase, -glucosidase, glutamyl glutamic acid arylamidase, leucyl glycine arylamidase and N-acetyl--glucosaminidase, and acid was produced from mannose. All other reactions in this test system were negative. Employing the API ZYM test kit, positive reactions were obtained for N-acetyl--glucosaminidase, alkaline phosphatase, acid phosphatase, -glucosidase and phosphoamidase. All other tests were negative using the API ZYM gallery. Indole was not produced and nitrate was not reduced. Gelatin was not hydrolysed. The quantitative fatty acid profile of PC139T consisted of iso-C11 : 0 (0·4 %), anteiso-C11 : 0 (0·2 %), iso-C13 : 0 (1·1 %), anteiso-C13 : 0 (0·8 %), C15 : 0 (7·6 %), iso-C15 : 0 (8·2 %), anteiso-C15 : 0 (31·3 %), iso-C16 : 0 (1·3 %), C16 : 0 (3·5 %), C16 : 1
7c (0·3 %), C17 : 0 (2·2 %), iso-C17 : 0 (10·1 %), anteiso-C17 : 0 (3·2 %), iso-C17 : 0 3-OH (17·4 %), anteiso-C17 : 19c (2·2 %), C18 : 0 (1·4 %) and C18 : 19c (2·4 %). In addition, the profile also contained a summed feature consisting of C18 : 26,9c/anteiso-C18 : 0 (6·36 %). The two isolates were resistant to ampicillin (100 µg ml–1), cefoxitin (20 µg ml–1), erythromycin (10 µg ml–1), gentamicin (200 µg ml–1) and tetracycline (3 µgml–1). The G+C content of the DNA of a representative strain (PC139T) of the unknown bacterium was 36·4 mol%.
To determine the phylogenetic affiliations between the isolates and to recognized species, the 16S rRNA genes were amplified by PCR and sequenced, yielding a continual stretch of >1450 bases. Strains PC139T and PC111 were found to be genetically highly related to each other, displaying 99·7 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. Treeing analysis revealed that the isolates were members of the Bacteroides–Prevotella–Porphyromonas rRNA super cluster of organisms (data not shown), and had a specific affinity with members of the genus Bacteroides. The phylogenetic position of PC139T using a reduced dataset is shown in Fig. 1. Treeing analysis clearly showed that this unknown bacterium represents a new subline within the genus Bacteroides. Although the novel organism displayed no phylogenetic affinity with any particular species, displaying 16S rRNA gene sequence divergence values of 
10 %, branching of the unknown organism at the base of this group was supported by a bootstrap resampling value of 100 %. There is no precise correlation between percentage 16S rRNA gene sequence divergence and species delineation, but it is generally recognized that divergence values of 3 % are significant (Stackebrandt & Goebel, 1994). Support for the distinctiveness of the unknown manure bacterium was also evident from phenotypic analyses. Tests that proved useful in distinguishing the novel species from some recognized Bacteroides species are shown in Table 1. Based on the phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence presented, we consider that the two unidentified isolates recovered from pig manure should be assigned to the genus Bacteroides, as Bacteroides coprosuis sp. nov.
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Cells are Gram-negative rods that are anaerobic, non-motile and non-spore-forming. Typical cells are 0·8–3·0 µm by 0·5–1·5 µm in size. Colonies grown on BHI agar plates after 48 h incubation at 37 °C under 96 % CO2/4 % H2 gas phase are cream, circular, convex, entire and opaque and reach a diameter of 1 mm. Optimum temperature for growth is 37 °C. Catalase, oxidase and urease are not produced. Gelatin is not liquefied. Growth is observed in RGM containing glucose, maltose and chondroitin sulfate. Acid end products of glucose metabolism are acetate, succinate and propionate. Using API kits, a positive reaction is observed from acid phosphatase, N-acetyl--glucosaminidase, alkaline phosphatase, alanine arylamidase, arginine arylamidase, chymotrypsin, cystine arylamidase, esterase C4, ester lipase C8, -fucosidase, -galactosidase, -glucosidase, -glucosidase, glutamyl glutamic acid arylamidase, leucyl glycine arylamidase, lipase C14 and mannose. Activity is not detected for -arabinosidase, arginine dihydrolase, -fucosidase, -galactosidase-6-phosphate, -glucuronidase, glutamic acid arylamidase, glycine arylamidase, histidine arylamidase, leucine arylamidase, -mannosidase, phenyl alanine arylamidase, proline arylamidase, phosphoamidase, pyroglutamic acid arylamidase, raffinose, serine arylamidase, tyrosine arylamidase, trypsin or valine arylamidase. Aesculin and starch are hydrolysed. Indole is not produced. Nitrate is not reduced. Gelatin is not hydrolysed. Resistant to ampicillin (100 µg ml–1), cefoxitin (20 µg ml–1), erythromycin (10 µg ml–1), gentamicin (200 µg ml–1) and tetracycline (3 µg ml–1). The major long-chain cellular fatty acids present are C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C16 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 and anteiso-C17 : 0.
The type strain, PC139T (=CCUG 50528T=NRRL B-41113T), was isolated from swine manure. The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 36·4 mol%.
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