RECLASSIFICATION OF FLAVOBACTERIUM-ODORATUM (STUTZER 1929) STRAINS TOA NEW GENUS, MYROIDES, AS MYROIDES-ODORATUS COMB-NOV AND MYROIDES-ODORATIMIMUS SP-NOV

Authors
VANCANNEYT M SEGERS P TORCK U HOSTE B BERNARDET JF VANDAMME P KERSTERS K
Citation
M. Vancanneyt et al., RECLASSIFICATION OF FLAVOBACTERIUM-ODORATUM (STUTZER 1929) STRAINS TOA NEW GENUS, MYROIDES, AS MYROIDES-ODORATUS COMB-NOV AND MYROIDES-ODORATIMIMUS SP-NOV, International journal of systematic bacteriology, 46(4), 1996, pp. 926-932
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology
Journal title
International journal of systematic bacteriology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00207713
Volume
46
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
926 - 932
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7713(1996)46:4<926:ROF(1S>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
On the basis of genotypic, chemotaxonomic, and phenotypic data, Flavob acterium odoratum was excluded from emended genus Flavobacterium. In t he present study, the known heterogeneity within this species was exam ined by a polyphasic approach that included DNA-rRNA hybridizations, a determination of DNA base ratios, DNA-DNA hybridizations, a numerical analysis of whole-cell protein patterns, a determination of cellular fatty acid compositions, and a phenotypic analysis, All of the methods revealed the presence of two distinct species. We propose that F. odo ratum strains should be placed in a new genus, the genus Myroides, whi ch comprises two species, Myroides odoratus comb. nov. and Myroides od oratimimus sp, nov.