Flavobacterium petrolei sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic, diesel-degrading bacterium isolated from oil-contaminated Arctic soil.

ABSTRACT: This study presents taxonomic description of two novel diesel-degrading, psychrophilic strains: Kopri-42^T and Kopri-43, isolated during screening of oil-degrading psychrotrophs from oil-contaminated Arctic soil. A preliminary 16S rRNA gene sequence and phylogenetic tree analysis indicated that these Arctic strains belonged to the genus Flavobacterium, with the nearest relative being Flavobacterium psychrolimnae LMG 22018^T (98.9% sequence similarity). The pairwise 16S rRNA gene sequence identity between strains Kopri-42^T and Kopri-43 was 99.7%. The DNA-DNA hybridization value between strain Kopri-42^T and Kopri-43 was 88.6 ± 2.1% indicating that Kopri-42^T and Kopri-43 represents two strains of the same genomospecies. The average nucleoti

SUBMITTER: Chaudhary DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6411956 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature