VALIDATION LIST NO. 105:

Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1743-1745. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NOTIFICATION LIST:

Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3, of the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1747-1749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

OBITUARY:

In memoriam – David R. Boone (1952–2005)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1751. [Full Text] [PDF]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Hans G. Trüper

Is ‘localimania’ becoming a fashion for prokaryote taxonomists?
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1753. [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Archaea:

Xue-Wei Xu, Min Wu, Pei-Jin Zhou, and Shuang-Jiang Liu

Halobiforma lacisalsi sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake in China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1949-1952. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

NEW TAXA: Gram-Positive Bacteria:

Ying Huang, Xin Dai, Liang He, Ya-Nan Wang, Bao-Jun Wang, Zhiheng Liu, and Shuang-Jiang Liu

Sanguibacter marinus sp. nov., isolated from coastal sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1755-1758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis A. Maldonado, William Fenical, Paul R. Jensen, Christopher A. Kauffman, Tracy J. Mincer, Alan C. Ward, Alan T. Bull, and Michael Goodfellow

Salinispora arenicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salinispora tropica sp. nov., obligate marine actinomycetes belonging to the family Micromonosporaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1759-1766. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abdul Majid Maszenan, Joo-Hwa Tay, Peter Schumann, He-Long Jiang, and Stephen Tiong-Lee Tay

Quadrisphaera granulorum gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-positive polyphosphate-accumulating coccus in tetrads or aggregates isolated from aerobic granules
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1771-1777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

María Teresa García, Virginia Gallego, Antonio Ventosa, and Encarnación Mellado

Thalassobacillus devorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, phenol-degrading, Gram-positive bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1789-1795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Wen-Jun Li, Peter Schumann, Yu-Qin Zhang, Guo-Zhong Chen, Xin-Peng Tian, Li-Hua Xu, Erko Stackebrandt, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Marinococcus halotolerans sp. nov., isolated from Qinghai, north-west China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1801-1804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jee-Min Lim, Che Ok Jeon, Sung-Min Song, Jae-Chan Lee, Yoon Jung Ju, Li-Hua Xu, Cheng-Lin Jiang, and Chang-Jin Kim

Lentibacillus lacisalsi sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saline lake in China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1805-1809. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Ken-ichiro Iida, Yasuichi Ueda, Yoshiaki Kawamura, Takayuki Ezaki, Akemi Takade, Shin-ichi Yoshida, and Kazunobu Amako

Paenibacillus motobuensis sp. nov., isolated from a composting machine utilizing soil from Motobu-town, Okinawa, Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1811-1816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, So-Jung Kang, Soo-Young Lee, Mi-Hwa Lee, and Tae-Kwang Oh

Virgibacillus dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from a Korean island, Dokdo, located at the edge of the East Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1833-1837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yu-Qin Zhang, Peter Schumann, Wen-Jun Li, Guo-Zhong Chen, Xin-Peng Tian, Erko Stackebrandt, Li-Hua Xu, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Isoptericola halotolerans sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from saline soil from Qinghai Province, north-west China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1867-1870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soji Iida, Hiroko Taniguchi, Akiko Kageyama, Katsukiyo Yazawa, Hiroji Chibana, Shota Murata, Fumio Nomura, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, and Yuzuru Mikami

Gordonia otitidis sp. nov., isolated from a patient with external otitis
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1871-1876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Che Ok Jeon, Jee-Min Lim, Jung-Min Lee, Li-Hua Xu, Cheng-Lin Jiang, and Chang-Jin Kim

Reclassification of Bacillus haloalkaliphilus Fritze 1996 as Alkalibacillus haloalkaliphilus gen. nov., comb. nov. and the description of Alkalibacillus salilacus sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake in China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1891-1896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Valme Jurado, Ingrid Groth, Juan M. Gonzalez, Leonila Laiz, and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez

Agromyces subbeticus sp. nov., isolated from a cave in southern Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1897-1901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qingfeng Cui, Liming Wang, Ying Huang, Zhiheng Liu, and Michael Goodfellow

Nocardia jiangxiensis sp. nov. and Nocardia miyunensis sp. nov., isolated from acidic soils
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1921-1925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Wen-Jun Li, Peter Schumann, Yu-Qin Zhang, Ping Xu, Guo-Zhong Chen, Li-Hua Xu, Erko Stackebrandt, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Proposal of Yaniaceae fam. nov. and Yania flava sp. nov. and emended description of the genus Yania
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1933-1938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Liang He, Wei Li, Ying Huang, Liming Wang, Zhiheng Liu, Benjamin Lanoot, Marc Vancanneyt, and Jean Swings

Streptomyces jietaisiensis sp. nov., isolated from soil in northern China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1939-1944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon and Tae-Kwang Oh

Bacillus litoralis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1945-1948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roman Pantucek, Ivo Sedlácek, Petr Petrás, Dagmar Koukalová, Pavel Svec, Vlastimil Stetina, Marc Vancanneyt, Lenka Chrastinová, Jitka Vokurková, Vladislava Ruzicková, Jirí Doskar, Jean Swings, and Václav Hájek

Staphylococcus simiae sp. nov., isolated from South American squirrel monkeys
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1953-1958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

M. Abdul Alim Al-Bari, M. Shah Alam Bhuiyan, María Elena Flores, Pavel Petrosyan, Martín García-Varela, and M. Anwar Ul Islam

Streptomyces bangladeshensis sp. nov., isolated from soil, which produces bis-(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1973-1977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Michael Goodfellow, Luis A. Maldonado, and Erika T. Quintana

Reclassification of Nonomuraea flexuosa (Meyer 1989) Zhang et al. 1998 as Thermopolyspora flexuosa gen. nov., comb. nov., nom. rev.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1979-1983. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

W. Y. Liu, J. Zeng, L. Wang, Y. T. Dou, and S. S. Yang

Halobacillus dabanensis sp. nov. and Halobacillus aidingensis sp. nov., isolated from salt lakes in Xinjiang, China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1991-1996. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Danielle Saintpierre-Bonaccio, Hamid Amir, René Pineau, G. Y. Annie Tan, and Michael Goodfellow

Amycolatopsis plumensis sp. nov., a novel bioactive actinomycete isolated from a New-Caledonian brown hypermagnesian ultramafic soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2057-2061. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tatyana G. Sokolova, Nadezhda A. Kostrikina, Nikolai A. Chernyh, Tatjana V. Kolganova, Tatjana P. Tourova, and Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Thermincola carboxydiphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, carboxydotrophic, hydrogenogenic bacterium from a hot spring of the Lake Baikal area
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2069-2073. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kwang Kyu Kim, Hye Yoon Park, Wooshin Park, In S. Kim, and Sung-Taik Lee

Microbacterium xylanilyticum sp. nov., a xylan-degrading bacterium isolated from a biofilm
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2075-2079. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Akiko Kageyama, Katsukiyo Yazawa, Hiroko Taniguchi, Hiroji Chibana, Kazuko Nishimura, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, and Yuzuru Mikami

Nocardia concava sp. nov., isolated from Japanese patients
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2081-2083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure and Tables]  

Jack S.-C. Liou, David L. Balkwill, Gwendolyn R. Drake, and Ralph S. Tanner

Clostridium carboxidivorans sp. nov., a solvent-producing clostridium isolated from an agricultural settling lagoon, and reclassification of the acetogen Clostridium scatologenes strain SL1 as Clostridium drakei sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2085-2091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Marina Rodríguez-Díaz, Liesbeth Lebbe, Belén Rodelas, Jeroen Heyrman, Paul De Vos, and Niall A. Logan

Paenibacillus wynnii sp. nov., a novel species harbouring the nifH gene, isolated from Alexander Island, Antarctica
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2093-2099. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Kouta Hatayama, Hirofumi Shoun, Yasuichi Ueda, and Akira Nakamura

Planifilum fimeticola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Planifilum fulgidum sp. nov., novel members of the family ‘Thermoactinomycetaceae’ isolated from compost
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2101-2104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Monika Wieser, Hanna Worliczek, Peter Kämpfer, and Hans-Jürgen Busse

Bacillus herbersteinensis sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2119-2123. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Richard A. Albert, Julieta Archambault, Ramón Rosselló-Mora, Brian J. Tindall, and Mike Matheny

Bacillus acidicola sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, acidophilic species isolated from acidic Sphagnum peat bogs in Wisconsin
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2125-2130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Sofiya N. Parshina, Jan Sipma, Yutaka Nakashimada, Anne Meint Henstra, Hauke Smidt, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Piet N. L. Lens, Gatze Lettinga, and Alfons J. M. Stams

Desulfotomaculum carboxydivorans sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium capable of growth at 100 % CO
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2159-2165. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bin Zhang, Huichun Tong, and Xiuzhu Dong

Pediococcus cellicola sp. nov., a novel lactic acid coccus isolated from a distilled-spirit-fermenting cellar
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2167-2170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Choong-Hwan Lee, and Tae-Kwang Oh

Aeromicrobium alkaliterrae sp. nov., isolated from an alkaline soil, and emended description of the genus Aeromicrobium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2171-2175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Sabri M. Naser, Marc Vancanneyt, Evelyne De Graef, Luc A. Devriese, Cindy Snauwaert, Karen Lefebvre, Bart Hoste, Pavel Svec, Annemie Decostere, Freddy Haesebrouck, and Jean Swings

Enterococcus canintestini sp. nov., from faecal samples of healthy dogs
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2177-2182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Pavel Svec, Marc Vancanneyt, Luc A. Devriese, Sabri M. Naser, Cindy Snauwaert, Karen Lefebvre, Bart Hoste, and Jean Swings

Enterococcus aquimarinus sp. nov., isolated from sea water
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2183-2187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Marc Vancanneyt, Katrien Engelbeen, Marjan De Wachter, Katrien Vandemeulebroecke, Ilse Cleenwerck, and Jean Swings

Reclassification of Lactobacillus ferintoshensis as a later heterotypic synonym of Lactobacillus parabuchneri
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2195-2198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huichun Tong and Xiuzhu Dong

Lactobacillus concavus sp. nov., isolated from the walls of a distilled spirit fermenting cellar in China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2199-2202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Choong-Hwan Lee, and Tae-Kwang Oh

Nocardioides dubius sp. nov., isolated from an alkaline soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2209-2212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Proteobacteria:

Wriddhiman Ghosh, Angshuman Bagchi, Sukhendu Mandal, Bomba Dam, and Pradosh Roy

Tetrathiobacter kashmirensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel mesophilic, neutrophilic, tetrathionate-oxidizing, facultatively chemolithotrophic betaproteobacterium isolated from soil from a temperate orchard in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1779-1787. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Jürgen Heyer, Ursula Berger, Martin Hardt, and Peter F. Dunfield

Methylohalobius crimeensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, methanotrophic bacterium isolated from hypersaline lakes of Crimea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1817-1826. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ian R. McDonald, Peter Kämpfer, Ed Topp, Karen L. Warner, Michael J. Cox, Tracy L. Connell Hancock, Laurence G. Miller, Michael J. Larkin, Veronique Ducrocq, Catherine Coulter, David B. Harper, J. Colin Murrell, and Ronald S. Oremland

Aminobacter ciceronei sp. nov. and Aminobacter lissarensis sp. nov., isolated from various terrestrial environments
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1827-1832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsuko Katsuta, Kyoko Adachi, Satoru Matsuda, Yoshikazu Shizuri, and Hiroaki Kasai

Ferrimonas marina sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1851-1855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Strain details]  

Diva do Carmo Teixeira, Colette Saillard, Sandrine Eveillard, Jean Luc Danet, Paulo Inácio da Costa, Antonio Juliano Ayres, and Joseph Bové

‘Candidatus Liberibacter americanus’, associated with citrus huanglongbing (greening disease) in São Paulo State, Brazil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1857-1862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Jun Tsubota, Bulat Ts. Eshinimaev, Valentina N. Khmelenina, and Yuri A. Trotsenko

Methylothermus thermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic obligate methanotroph from a hot spring in Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1877-1884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Choong-Hwan Lee, So-Jung Kang, and Tae-Kwang Oh

Psychrobacter celer sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the South Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1885-1890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kyung-Bum Lee, Chi-Te Liu, Yojiro Anzai, Hongik Kim, Toshihiro Aono, and Hiroshi Oyaizu

The hierarchical system of the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’: description of Hyphomonadaceae fam. nov., Xanthobacteraceae fam. nov. and Erythrobacteraceae fam. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1907-1919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Full version of Fig. 1]  

Daiki Amakata, Yasuhiro Matsuo, Kumiko Shimono, Jae Kweon Park, Choong Soo Yun, Hideyuki Matsuda, Akira Yokota, and Makoto Kawamukai

Mitsuaria chitosanitabida gen. nov., sp. nov., an aerobic, chitosanase-producing member of the ‘Betaproteobacteria’
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1927-1932. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. J. Pujalte, M. C. Macián, D. R. Arahal, and E. Garay

Thalassobacter stenotrophicus Macián et al. 2005 is a later synonym of Jannaschia cystaugens Adachi et al. 2004, with emended description of the genus Thalassobacter
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1959-1963. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rinku Pal, Shashi Bala, Mandeep Dadhwal, Mukesh Kumar, Gauri Dhingra, Om Prakash, S. R. Prabagaran, S. Shivaji, John Cullum, Christof Holliger, and Rup Lal

Hexachlorocyclohexane-degrading bacterial strains Sphingomonas paucimobilis B90A, UT26 and Sp+, having similar lin genes, represent three distinct species, Sphingobium indicum sp. nov., Sphingobium japonicum sp. nov. and Sphingobium francense sp. nov., and reclassification of [Sphingomonas] chungbukensis as Sphingobium chungbukense comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1965-1972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Angel Valverde, Encarna Velázquez, Félix Fernández-Santos, Nieves Vizcaíno, Raúl Rivas, Pedro F. Mateos, Eustoquio Martínez-Molina, José Mariano Igual, and Anne Willems

Phyllobacterium trifolii sp. nov., nodulating Trifolium and Lupinus in Spanish soils
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1985-1989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bram Vanparys, Kim Heylen, Liesbeth Lebbe, and Paul De Vos

Devosia limi sp. nov., isolated from a nitrifying inoculum
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1997-2000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zubair Aslam, Wan-Taek Im, Leonid N. Ten, and Sung-Taik Lee

Phenylobacterium koreense sp. nov., isolated from South Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2001-2005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Fernando Martínez-Checa, Victoria Béjar, M. José Martínez-Cánovas, Inmaculada Llamas, and Emilia Quesada

Halomonas almeriensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium from Cabo de Gata, Almería, south-east Spain
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2007-2011. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Jae-Chan Lee, Che Ok Jeon, Jee-Min Lim, Sang-Mi Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Sung-Min Song, Dong-Jin Park, Wen-Jun Li, and Chang-Jin Kim

Halomonas taeanensis sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a solar saltern in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2027-2032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure and table]  

Kae Kyoung Kwon, Hee-Soon Lee, Sung Hyun Yang, and Sang-Jin Kim

Kordiimonas gwangyangensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from marine sediments that forms a distinct phyletic lineage (Kordiimonadales ord. nov.) in the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2033-2037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arthur Wolterink, Sungyoun Kim, Margje Muusse, In S. Kim, Paul J. M. Roholl, Cees G. van Ginkel, Alfons J. M. Stams, and Servé W. M. Kengen

Dechloromonas hortensis sp. nov. and strain ASK-1, two novel (per)chlorate-reducing bacteria, and taxonomic description of strain GR-1
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2063-2068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

A. M. Maszenan, R. J. Seviour, B. K. C. Patel, P. H. Janssen, and J. Wanner

Defluvicoccus vanus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-negative coccus/coccobacillus in the ‘Alphaproteobacteria’ from activated sludge
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2105-2111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Chaturvedi, G. S. N. Reddy, and S. Shivaji

Dyadobacter hamtensis sp. nov., from Hamta glacier, located in the Himalayas, India
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2113-2117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Bhaskar Bhadra, Pradosh Roy, and Ranadhir Chakraborty

Serratia ureilytica sp. nov., a novel urea-utilizing species
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2155-2158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures and tables]  

Elena P. Ivanova, Natalia V. Zhukova, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Nataliya M. Gorshkova, Alexander F. Sergeev, Valery V. Mikhailov, and John P. Bowman

Loktanella agnita sp. nov. and Loktanella rosea sp. nov., from the north-west Pacific Ocean
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2203-2207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

NEW TAXA: Other Bacteria:

Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Seung Bum Kim, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Myung Soo Park, Valery V. Mikhailov, Kyung Sook Bae, and Ho Yong Park

Roseivirga echinicomitans sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium isolated from the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius, and emended description of the genus Roseivirga
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1797-1800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuo Sakamoto, Makoto Umeda, Isao Ishikawa, and Yoshimi Benno

Prevotella multisaccharivorax sp. nov., isolated from human subgingival plaque
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1839-1843. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Seo-Youn Jung, So-Jung Kang, Mi-Hwa Lee, Soo-Young Lee, Tae-Kwang Oh, and Jung-Hoon Yoon

Gaetbulibacter saemankumensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from a tidal flat sediment in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1845-1849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Astrid Collingro, Elena R. Toenshoff, Michael W. Taylor, Thomas R. Fritsche, Michael Wagner, and Matthias Horn

‘Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila’, an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1863-1866. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kengo Shimomura, Shigeo Kaji, and Akira Hiraishi

Chryseobacterium shigense sp. nov., a yellow-pigmented, aerobic bacterium isolated from a lactic acid beverage
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1903-1906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, So-Jung Kang, Soo-Young Lee, Choong-Hwan Lee, and Tae-Kwang Oh

Maribacter dokdonensis sp. nov., isolated from sea water off a Korean island, Dokdo
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2051-2055. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maki Kitahara, Mitsuo Sakamoto, Masako Ike, Shinji Sakata, and Yoshimi Benno

Bacteroides plebeius sp. nov. and Bacteroides coprocola sp. nov., isolated from human faeces
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2143-2147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Hanli de Beer, Celia J. Hugo, Piet J. Jooste, Anne Willems, Marc Vancanneyt, Tom Coenye, and Peter A. R. Vandamme

Chryseobacterium vrystaatense sp. nov., isolated from raw chicken in a chicken-processing plant
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2149-2153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure and table]  

Louise A. O'Sullivan, Joachim Rinna, Gavin Humphreys, Andrew J. Weightman, and John C. Fry

Fluviicola taffensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel freshwater bacterium of the family Cryomorphaceae in the phylum ‘Bacteroidetes’
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2189-2194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

NEW TAXA: Unicellular Eukaryotes:

Carla C. C. Ruivo, Marc-André Lachance, Carlos A. Rosa, Maurício Bacci, Jr, and Fernando C. Pagnocca

Candida bromeliacearum sp. nov. and Candida ubatubensis sp. nov., two yeast species isolated from the water tanks of Canistropsis seidelii (Bromeliaceae)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2213-2217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zuo-Wei Wu and Feng-Yan Bai

Kazachstania aquatica sp. nov. and Kazachstania solicola sp. nov., novel ascomycetous yeast species
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2219-2224. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Savitree Limtong, Nantana Srisuk, Wichien Yongmanitchai, Hiroya Yurimoto, Takashi Nakase, and Nobuo Kato

Pichia thermomethanolica sp. nov., a novel thermotolerant, methylotrophic yeast isolated in Thailand
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2225-2229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY AND BIODIVERSITY:

Johannes Sikorski, Jorge Lalucat, and Wilfried Wackernagel

Genomovars 11 to 18 of Pseudomonas stutzeri, identified among isolates from soil and marine sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 1767-1770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Sonia Paradis, Maurice Boissinot, Nancy Paquette, Simon D. Bélanger, Eric A. Martel, Dominique K. Boudreau, François J. Picard, Marc Ouellette, Paul H. Roy, and Michel G. Bergeron

Phylogeny of the Enterobacteriaceae based on genes encoding elongation factor Tu and F-ATPase -subunit
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2013-2025. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Carl-Johan Rubin, Mikael Thollesson, Leif A. Kirsebom, and Björn Herrmann

Phylogenetic relationships and species differentiation of 39 Legionella species by sequence determination of the RNase P RNA gene rnpB
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2039-2049. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Material]  

Yan Zhao, Robert E. Davis, and Ing-Ming Lee

Phylogenetic positions of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris' and Spiroplasma kunkelii as inferred from multiple sets of concatenated core housekeeping proteins
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2131-2141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Minutes:

Russell H. Vreeland and Antonio Ventosa

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes; Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Halomonadaceae: Minutes of the open meeting, 8 September 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2231-2232. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ERRATA:

Hiroshige Matsubara, Keiichi Goto, Terumi Matsumura, Kaoru Mochida, Masaharu Iwaki, Motohiro Niwa, and Kazuhide Yamasato

Alicyclobacillus acidiphilus sp. nov., a novel thermo-acidophilic, -alicyclic fatty acid-containing bacterium isolated from acidic beverages
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2233. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoshi Nakagawa, Ken Takai, Fumio Inagaki, Koki Horikoshi, and Yoshihiko Sako

Nitratiruptor tergarcus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Nitratifractor salsuginis gen. nov., sp. nov., nitrate-reducing chemolithoautotrophs of the -Proteobacteria isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal system in the Mid-Okinawa Trough
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2233. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nina V. Doronina, Ekaterina G. Ivanova, and Yuri A. Trotsenko

Phylogenetic position and emended description of the genus Methylovorus
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005 55: 2233. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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