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Rhodococcus jostii: a home for Rhodococcus strain RHA1

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The taxonomic position of Rhodococcus strain RHA1, an effective degrader of polychlorinated biphenyls with a large linear chromosome, was established using a polyphasic approach. The morphological and chemotaxonomic properties of the strain were typical of members of the genus Rhodococcus. The strain shared a high level of 16S rRNA sequence similarity (99.9 %) with the type strain of Rhodococcus jostii, a member of the Rhodococcus erythropolis subclade. The two strains shared a DNA:DNA relatedness value well above the cut-off point recommended for the circumscription of genomic species and had a broad range of phenotypic properties in common. The combination of genomic and phenotypic data show strain RHA1 to be a bona fide member of the species Rhodococcus jostii.

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The authors are indebted to Lindsay Eltis and Bill Mohn of the University of British Columbia; Vancouver, for their helpful input into this study.

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  1. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK

    Amanda L. Jones & Jesmine Lim

  2. School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

    Amanda L. Jones, Roselyn Brown & Michael Goodfellow

  3. Life Sciences Centre, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada

    Julian Davies

  4. Department of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, 940-2198, Japan

    Masao Fukuda

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The GenBank accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Rhodococcus jostii RHA1 is CP 000431.

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Jones, A.L., Davies, J., Fukuda, M. et al. Rhodococcus jostii: a home for Rhodococcus strain RHA1. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 104, 435–440 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-9958-5

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