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A novel marine flavobacterial species, designated 3KA7-17T, was isolated from the hard coral Acropora formosa D. collected in Japan. The strain was pale-orange pigmented, Gram-stain negative, strictly aerobic, coccus shaped, and non-motile. Preliminary analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed an affiliation with the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes, and it had the greatest sequence similarity (96.0%) to Seonamhaeicola algicola Gy8T. The DNA G + C content was 34.3 mol%. MK-6 was the major menaquinone, with iso-C15:1 H and/or C13:0 3-OH (24.3%), iso-C15:0 (19.5%), iso-C15:0 3-OH (14.2%), and iso-C17:0 3-OH (15.9%) as the main (> 10%) cellular fatty acids. The major polar lipid profile consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, two unidentified aminolipids, and two unidentified lipids. Based on distinct phylogenetic and phenotypic evidence, the strain represents a novel species of the genus Seonamhaeicola, for which the name Seonamhaeicola acroporae sp. nov. is proposed and the type strain is 3KA7-17T (= KCTC 62713T = NBRC 113410T).
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The digital protologue database (DPD) number for the strain 3KA7-17T is TA00563. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain 3KA7-17T is LC385645.
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Two-dimensional thin-layer chromatograms showing the total polar lipid compositions of 3KA7-17T. Total polar lipids were detected by spraying the plate with molybdatophosphoric acid, molybdenum blue, ninhydrin, and α-naphthol. PE: phosphatidylethanolamine, AL: unidentified aminolipid, L: unidentified lipid (PPTX 780 KB)
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Yoon, J., Yasumoto-Hirose, M. & Kasai, H. Seonamhaeicola acroporae sp. nov., a marine species of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from the hard coral Acropora formosa. Arch Microbiol 201, 499–504 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-018-1589-9
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