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Paracoccus gahaiensis sp. nov. isolated from sediment of Gahai Lake, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

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An aerobic, orange-pigmented, Gram-negative, coccoid bacterium, named CUG 00006T, was isolated from the sediment of Gahai Lake, Qinghai Province, China. This organism was alkaline and grew optimally at pH 9 and 20 °C in the presence of 4 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain CUG 00006T contained Q-10 as the major isoprenoid quinone and C18:1ω7c as the main fatty acids. The DNA G + C content was 67.8 mol%. The analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain CUG 00006T was phylogenetically related to members of the genus Paracoccus, with the similarities ranging from 93.5 to 97.9 %. In particular, strain CUG 00006T was closely related to P. marcusii DSM 11574T (97.7 %), P. haeundaensis KCCM 10460T (97.8 %), and P. carotinifaciens IFO 16121T (97.7 %). On the basis of phylogenetic, physiological, and biochemical characterization, strain CUG 00006T is described as a new species of the genus Paracoccus, for which the name Paracoccus gahaiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain CUG 00006T (=CCTCC M 2014217T = KCTC 42687T).

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41422208, 41521001, and 41302022), State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences (No. GBL11201), and the Fundamental Research Funds for National University, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan). W.-J. Li was also supported by Guangdong Province Higher Vocational Colleges & Schools Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme (2014). We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers whose constructive comments significantly improved the quality of the manuscript.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, People’s Republic of China

    Guojing Zhang, Jian Yang, Wen Liu & Hongchen Jiang

  2. Key Laboratory of Microbial Diversity in Southwest China, Ministry of Education, and Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan Institute of Microbiology, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650091, People’s Republic of China

    Wendong Xian

  3. State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol and Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, People’s Republic of China

    Wenjun Li

  4. Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, CAS, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ürümqi, 830011, People’s Republic of China

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Communicated by Erko Stackebrandt.

The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain CUG 00006T is KT345705.

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00203-016-1292-7.

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Zhang, G., Xian, W., Yang, J. et al. Paracoccus gahaiensis sp. nov. isolated from sediment of Gahai Lake, Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China. Arch Microbiol 198, 227–232 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-015-1184-2

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