1. Wohlfahrtiimonas larvae sp. nov., isolated from the larval gut of Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
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Jeonggu Sim, Jae Kook Lee, Young-Cheol Choi, Youn Yeop Lee, Kwan Ho Park, and Sung-Jae Lee
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DNA, Bacterial ,Xanthomonadaceae ,Hermetia illucens ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Stratiomyidae ,DNA, Ribosomal ,Microbiology ,Animals ,Molecular Biology ,Phylogeny ,Larva ,Oxidase test ,biology ,Strain (chemistry) ,Diptera ,Fatty Acids ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,16S ribosomal RNA ,Bacterial Typing Techniques ,Gastrointestinal Tract ,Catalase ,biology.protein ,lipids (amino acids, peptides, and proteins) ,Bacteria - Abstract
A novel, Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, motile and short rod-shaped bacterium, strain KBL006(T) was isolated from the larval gut of Hermetia illucens, Black soldier fly. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain KBL006(T) showed 96.4 % similarity to that of Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica S5(T). Strain KBL006(T) grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 8.0 and in the presence of 1-2 % (w/v) NaCl. Oxidase activity and catalase activity were positive. The major fatty acids were C18:1 ω7c, C14:0, and C16:0. The major respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-8 (Q-8). The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, and diphosphatidylglycerol, and two phospholipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 45.2 mol%. Based on these polyphasic data, strain KBL006(T) is considered to represent a novel species in the genus Wohlfahrtiimonas, for which the name Wohlfahrtiimonas larvae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is KBL006(T) (= KACC 16839(T) = JCM 18424(T)).
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- 2013