Affiliation:
1. China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, P.R. China
2. China Agricultural University, Beijing 100094, P.R. China
Abstract
A curved, ring-like bacterium, strain AS 1.1761T, isolated from the roots of Spartina anglica, was studied by a polyphasic approach. According to phylogenetic analysis, strain AS 1.1761T belongs to the genus Ancylobacter, with 99·21 % 16S rDNA sequence similarity to Ancylobacter aquaticus, the only species described so far in this genus. However, strain AS 1.1761T had no significant DNA–DNA binding with the type strain of A. aquaticus. In addition, strain AS 1.1761T differed from A. aquaticus in many phenotypic features. Based on molecular and phenotypic data, a novel species, Ancylobacter rudongensis sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is AS 1.1761T (=JCM 11671T).
Subject
General Medicine,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Microbiology