Abstract
C Strompl, BJ Tindall, H Lunsdorf, TY Wong, ERB Moore and H Hippe
Microbial Ecology Group, Division of Microbiology, Gesellschaft fur Biotechnologische Forschung mbH, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany
Morphological features, genomic DNA base composition and 16S rDNA sequence similarities, as well as a distinct phospholipid pattern, whole-cell fatty acid distribution and the occurrence of the lipoquinone 'lipid F', indicate that Clostridium quercicolum belongs to the Sporomusa--Pectinatus-- Selenomonas phyletic group and possesses only a remote relationship to members of the genus Clostridium sensu stricto. On the basis of these results, the new genus and combination Dendrosporobacter quercicolus gen. nov., comb. nov. are proposed.