Feng Gao, Nurhidayu Al-Saari, A K M Rohul Amin, Kazumichi Sato, Sayaka Mino, Wataru Suda, Kenshiro Oshima, Masahira Hattori, Moriya Ohkuma, Paulo Iiboshi Hargreaves, Pedro Milet Meirelles, Fabiano L Thompson, Cristiane Thompson, Bruno Gomez-Gil, Toko Sawabe, Tomoo Sawabe
Five novel strains showing non-motile, alginolytic, halophilic and fermentative features were isolated from seawater samples off Okinawa in coral reef areas. These strains were characterized by an advanced polyphasic taxonomy including genome based taxonomy using multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) and in silico DNA-DNA similarity (in silico DDH). Phylogenetic analyses on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that the isolates could be assigned to the genus Vibrio, however they were not allocated into any distinct cluster with known Vibrionaceae species...
July 2016: Systematic and Applied Microbiology