Psychromonas aquatilis sp. nov., isolated from seawater samples obtained in the Chilean Antarctica

Peter Kämpfer, Rute Irgang, Matías Poblete-Morales, Stefanie P. Glaeser, Marcelo Cortez San Martín, Ruben Avendaño-Herrera

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Abstract

A slightly beige-white pigmented, Gram-staining-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, strain M1A1T, was isolated from seawater samples obtained in Fildes Bay, Antarctica (62°12′ S 58° 57′ W). Phylogenetic analysis based on nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the isolate shared 98.4% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity to the type strain of Psychromonas arctica, but less than 97% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to all other species of the genus Psychromonas. DNA–DNA hybridization with Psychromonas arctica DSM 14288T showed low values (21%, reciprocal 27%). The main cellular fatty acid of strain M1A1T was summed feature 3 fatty acids (C16: 1ω7c/C16: 1ω8c), followed by C16: 0. Based on phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic, genomic and phenotypic analyses, we propose a novel species of the genus Psychromonas with the name Psychromonas aquatilis sp. nov. and the strain M1A1T (=CIP 111183T=CCM 8710T=LMG 29766T) as type strain.

Original languageEnglish
Article number001801
Pages (from-to)1306-1311
Number of pages6
JournalInternational Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Volume67
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2017

Keywords

  • Antarctica
  • Psychromonas
  • Psychromonas aquatilis
  • Water

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Microbiology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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