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Salinispora pacifica sp. nov., an actinomycete from marine sediments

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A polyphasic analysis was carried out to clarify the taxonomic status of four marine actinomycete strains that share a phylogenetic relationship and phenotypic characteristics with the genus Salinispora. These strains formed a distinct lineage within the Salinispora 16S rRNA and gyrB trees and were found to possess a range of phenotypic properties and DNA:DNA hybridization values that distinguished them from the type strains of the two validly named species in this genus, Salinispora tropica (CNB-440T, ATCC BAA-916T) and Salinispora arenicola (CNH-643T, ATCC BAA-917T). The combined genotypic and phenotypic data support this conclusion. It is proposed that the strains be designated as Salinispora pacifica sp. nov., the type strain of which is CNR-114T (DSMZ YYYYT = KACC 17160T).

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank E. Gontang for the isolation of strains from Palau and assistance with fieldwork in Guam. PRJ acknowledges financial support from the National Institutes of Health under Grant U01-TW007401-01 from the Fogerty Center’s International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups program. We thank the people of Fiji for their hospitality and for permission to collect in the reefs of Kadavu Province and W. Aalbersberg (University of the South Pacific) for providing laboratory space and facilitating field collections. We also thank the government of Fiji for permission to work in their territorial waters.

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

    Lina Ahmed, Ros Brown, Amanda L. Jones & Michael Goodfellow

  2. Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0204, USA

    Paul R. Jensen & Kelle C. Freel

  3. Department of Agricultural Microbiology, National Academy of Agricultural Science, Rural Development Administration, Suwon, 441-707, Republic of Korea

    Byung-Yong Kim

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Ahmed, L., Jensen, P.R., Freel, K.C. et al. Salinispora pacifica sp. nov., an actinomycete from marine sediments. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 103, 1069–1078 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-013-9886-4

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