Issue table of contents

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology — Volume 54, Issue 4

64 articles in this issue

Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM

p. 1005 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63360-0

Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 2, of the IJSEM

p. 1007 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63306-0

Reclassification of salt-water Bdellovibrio sp. as Bacteriovorax marinus sp. nov. and Bacteriovorax litoralis sp. nov.

Baer, Marcie L., Ravel, Jacques, Pineiro, Silvia A., Guether-Borg, Diana, Williams, Henry N.

p. 1011 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02458-0

Maribacter gen. nov., a new member of the family Flavobacteriaceae, isolated from marine habitats, containing the species Maribacter sedimenticola sp. nov., Maribacter aquivivus sp. nov., Maribacter orientalis sp. nov. and Maribacter ulvicola sp. nov.

Nedashkovskaya, Olga I., Kim, Seung Bum, Han, Suk Kyun, Lysenko, Anatoly M., Rohde, Manfred, Rhee, Moon-Soo, Frolova, Galina M., Falsen, Enevold et al.

p. 1017 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02849-0

'Candidatus Phytoplasma spartii', 'Candidatus Phytoplasma rhamni' and 'Candidatus Phytoplasma allocasuarinae', respectively associated with spartium witches'-broom, buckthorn witches'-broom and allocasuarina yellows diseases

Marcone, C., Gibb, K. S., Streten, C., Schneider, B.

p. 1025 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02838-0

Thiocapsa marina sp. nov., a novel, okenone-containing, purple sulfur bacterium isolated from brackish coastal and marine environments

Caumette, Pierre, Guyoneaud, Remy, Imhoff, Johannes F., Suling, Jorg, Gorlenko, Vladimir

p. 1031 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02964-0

'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris', a novel phytoplasma taxon associated with aster yellows and related diseases

Lee, I.-M., Gundersen-Rindal, D. E., Davis, R. E., Bottner, K. D., Marcone, C., Seemuller, E.

p. 1037 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02843-0

Paenibacillus massiliensis sp. nov., Paenibacillus sanguinis sp. nov. and Paenibacillus timonensis sp. nov., isolated from blood cultures

Roux, Veronique, Raoult, Didier

p. 1049 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02954-0

Taxonomic characterization of nine strains isolated from clinical and environmental specimens, and proposal of Corynebacterium tuberculostearicum sp. nov.

Feurer, Carole, Clermont, Dominique, Bimet, Francois, Candrea, Adina, Jackson, Mary, Glaser, Philippe, Bizet, Chantal, Dauga, Catherine

p. 1055 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02907-0

Cerasibacillus quisquiliarum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a semi-continuous decomposing system of kitchen refuse

Nakamura, Kohei, Haruta, Shin, Ueno, Shintaro, Ishii, Masaharu, Yokota, Akira, Igarashi, Yasuo

p. 1063 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02883-0

Paenibacillus cineris sp. nov. and Paenibacillus cookii sp. nov., from Antarctic volcanic soils and a gelatin-processing plant

Logan, Niall A., De Clerck, Elke, Lebbe, Liesbeth, Verhelst, An, Goris, Johan, Forsyth, Gillian, Rodriguez-Diaz, Marina, Heyndrickx, Marc et al.

p. 1071 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02967-0

'Candidatus Phytoplasma cynodontis', the phytoplasma associated with Bermuda grass white leaf disease

Marcone, Carmine, Schneider, Bernd, Seemuller, Erich

p. 1077 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02837-0

Shewanella pacifica sp. nov., a polyunsaturated fatty acid-producing bacterium isolated from sea water

Elena P. Ivanova, Nataliya M. Gorshkova, John P. Bowman, Anatoli M. Lysenko, Natalia V. Zhukova, Alexander F. Sergeev, Valery V. Mikhailov, Dan V. Nicolau

p. 1083 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02993-0

Shewanella affinis sp. nov., isolated from marine invertebrates

Ivanova, Elena P., Nedashkovskaya, Olga I., Sawabe, Tomoo, Zhukova, Natalia V., Frolova, Galina M., Nicolau, Dan V., Mikhailov, Valery V., Bowman, John P.

p. 1089 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02992-0

Methanotorris formicicus sp. nov., a novel extremely thermophilic, methane-producing archaeon isolated from a black smoker chimney in the Central Indian Ridge

Takai, Ken, Nealson, Ken H., Horikoshi, Koki

p. 1095 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02887-0

Robiginitalea biformata gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae with a higher G+C content

Cho, Jang-Cheon, Giovannoni, Stephen J.

p. 1101 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03023-0

Salegentibacter holothuriorum sp. nov., isolated from the edible holothurian Apostichopus japonicus

Nedashkovskaya, Olga I., Suzuki, Makoto, Vancanneyt, Marc, Cleenwerck, Ilse, Zhukova, Natalia V., Vysotskii, Mikhail V., Mikhailov, Valery V., Swings, Jean

p. 1107 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02987-0

Proteobacteria

Microbulbifer maritimus sp. nov., isolated from an intertidal sediment from the Yellow Sea, Korea

Jung-Hoon Yoon, In-Gi Kim, Tae-Kwang Oh, Yong-Ha Park

p. 1111–1116 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02985-0

Other Bacteria

Treponema putidum sp. nov., a medium-sized proteolytic spirochaete isolated from lesions of human periodontitis and acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis

C. Wyss, A. Moter, B.-K. Choi, F. E. Dewhirst, Yi Xue, P. Schüpbach, U. B. Göbel, B. J. Paster et al.

p. 1117–1122 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02806-0

Mycobacterium parmense sp. nov.

Fanti, Franco, Tortoli, Enrico, Hall, Leslie, Roberts, Glenn D., Kroppenstedt, Reiner M., Dodi, Icilio, Conti, Stefania, Polonelli, Luciano et al.

p. 1123 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02760-0

Oceanicola granulosus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Oceanicola batsensis sp. nov., poly-{beta}-hydroxybutyrate-producing marine bacteria in the order 'Rhodobacterales'

Cho, Jang-Cheon, Giovannoni, Stephen J.

p. 1129 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03015-0

Gram-Positive Bacteria

Polyphasic taxonomic analysis of Bifidobacterium animalis and Bifidobacterium lactis reveals relatedness at the subspecies level: reclassification of Bifidobacterium animalis as Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis subsp. nov. and Bifidobacterium lactis as Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis subsp. nov.

Liesbeth Masco, Marco Ventura, Ralf Zink, Geert Huys, Jean Swings

p. 1137–1143 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03011-0

Reclassification of Amycolatopsis mediterranei DSM 46095 as Amycolatopsis rifamycinica sp. nov.

Bala, Shashi, Khanna, Richie, Dadhwal, M., Prabagaran, S. R., Shivaji, S., Cullum, John, Lal, Rup

p. 1145 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02901-0

Identification of the bacterial endosymbionts of the marine ciliate Euplotes magnicirratus (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) and proposal of 'Candidatus Devosia euplotis'

Vannini, Claudia, Rosati, Giovanna, Verni, Franco, Petroni, Giulio

p. 1151 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02759-0

Alteromonas stellipolaris sp. nov., a novel, budding, prosthecate bacterium from Antarctic seas, and emended description of the genus Alteromonas

Van Trappen, Stefanie, Tan, Tjhing-Lok, Yang, Jifang, Mergaert, Joris, Swings, Jean

p. 1157 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02862-0

Burkholderia unamae sp. nov., an N2-fixing rhizospheric and endophytic species

Caballero-Mellado, Jesus, Martinez-Aguilar, Lourdes, Paredes-Valdez, Guadalupe, Santos, Paulina Estrada-de los

p. 1165 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02951-0

Arenibacter certesii sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium isolated from the green alga Ulva fenestrata

Nedashkovskaya, Olga I., Kim, Seung Bum, Han, Suk Kyun, Lysenko, Anatoly M., Mikhailov, Valery V., Bae, Kyung Sook

p. 1173 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02872-0

Oceanibulbus indolifex gen. nov., sp. nov., a North Sea alphaproteobacterium that produces bioactive metabolites

Wagner-Dobler, Irene, Rheims, Holger, Felske, Andreas, El-Ghezal, Aymen, Flade-Schroder, Dirk, Laatsch, Hartmut, Lang, Siegmund, Pukall, Rudiger et al.

p. 1177 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02850-0

Swaminathania salitolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a salt-tolerant, nitrogen-fixing and phosphate-solubilizing bacterium from wild rice (Porteresia coarctata Tateoka)

Loganathan, P., Nair, Sudha

p. 1185 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02817-0

Proteobacteria

Methylobacterium populi sp. nov., a novel aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoides×nigra DN34)

Benoit Van Aken, Caroline M. Peres, Sharon Lafferty Doty, Jong Moon Yoon, Jerald L. Schnoor

p. 1191–1196 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02796-0

Alteromonas litorea sp. nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from an intertidal sediment of the Yellow Sea in Korea

Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Yeo, Soo-Hwan, Oh, Tae-Kwang, Park, Yong-Ha

p. 1197 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63079-0

Hydrocarboniphaga effusa gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the {gamma}-Proteobacteria active in alkane and aromatic hydrocarbon degradation

Palleroni, Norberto J., Port, Ava M., Chang, Hung-Kuang, Zylstra, Gerben J.

p. 1203 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03016-0

Tsukamurella pseudospumae sp. nov., a novel actinomycete isolated from activated sludge foam

Nam, Sun-Woo, Kim, Wonyong, Chun, Jongsik, Goodfellow, Michael

p. 1209 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02939-0

Halorubrum tibetense sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic archaeon from Lake Zabuye in Tibet, China

Fan, Huapeng, Xue, Yanfen, Ma, Yanhe, Ventosa, Antonio, Grant, William D.

p. 1213 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03032-0

'Candidatus Phytoplasma mali', 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri' and 'Candidatus Phytoplasma prunorum', the causal agents of apple proliferation, pear decline and European stone fruit yellows, respectively

Seemuller, Erich, Schneider, Bernd

p. 1217 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02823-0

Woodsholea maritima gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium with a low diversity of polar lipids

Abraham, Wolf-Rainer, Strompl, Carsten, Vancanneyt, Marc, Bennasar, Antonio, Swings, Jean, Lunsdorf, Heinrich, Smit, John, Moore, Edward R. B.

p. 1227 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02943-0

Stenotrophomonas africana Drancourt et al. 1997 is a later synonym of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (Hugh 1981) Palleroni and Bradbury 1993

Coenye, Tom, Vanlaere, Elke, Falsen, Enevold, Vandamme, Peter

p. 1235 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63093-0

Anoxybacillus voinovskiensis sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic bacterium from a hot spring in Kamchatka

Yumoto, Isao, Hirota, Kikue, Kawahara, Tomoo, Nodasaka, Yoshinobu, Okuyama, Hidetoshi, Matsuyama, Hidetoshi, Yokota, Yuji, Nakajima, Kenji et al.

p. 1239 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02889-0

'Candidatus Phytoplasma', a taxon for the wall-less, non-helical prokaryotes that colonize plant phloem and insects

The IRPCM Phytoplasma/Spiroplasma Working Team - Phytoplasma taxonomy group,

p. 1243 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02854-0

Algibacter lectus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from green algae

Nedashkovskaya, Olga I., Kim, Seung Bum, Han, Suk Kyun, Rhee, Moon-Soo, Lysenko, Anatoly M., Rohde, Manfred, Zhukova, Natalia V., Frolova, Galina M. et al.

p. 1257 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02949-0

Loktanella salsilacus gen. nov., sp. nov., Loktanella fryxellensis sp. nov. and Loktanella vestfoldensis sp. nov., new members of the Rhodobacter group, isolated from microbial mats in Antarctic lakes

Van Trappen, Stefanie, Mergaert, Joris, Swings, Jean

p. 1263 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03006-0

Bradyrhizobium betae sp. nov., isolated from roots of Beta vulgaris affected by tumour-like deformations

Rivas, Raul, Willems, Anne, Palomo, Jose Luis, Garcia-Benavides, Pablo, Mateos, Pedro F., Martinez-Molina, Eustoquio, Gillis, Monique, Velazquez, Encarna

p. 1271 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02971-0

Proposal to elevate the genetic variant MAC-A, included in the Mycobacterium avium complex, to species rank as Mycobacterium chimaera sp. nov.

Tortoli, Enrico, Rindi, Laura, Garcia, Maria J., Chiaradonna, Patrizia, Dei, Rosanna, Garzelli, Carlo, Kroppenstedt, Reiner M., Lari, Nicoletta et al.

p. 1277 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02777-0

Myceligenerans xiligouense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hyphae-forming member of the family Promicromonosporaceae

Cui, Xiaolong, Schumann, Peter, Stackebrandt, Erko, Kroppenstedt, Reiner M., Pukall, Rudiger, Xu, Lihua, Rohde, Manfred, Jiang, Chenglin

p. 1287 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03046-0

Nocardioides ganghwensis sp. nov., isolated from tidal flat sediment

Yi, Hana, Chun, Jongsik

p. 1295 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03040-0

Taxonomy of Australian clinical isolates of the genus Photorhabdus and proposal of Photorhabdus asymbiotica subsp. asymbiotica subsp. nov. and P. asymbiotica subsp. australis subsp. nov.

Akhurst, R. J., Boemare, N. E., Janssen, P. H., Peel, M. M., Alfredson, D. A., Beard, C. E.

p. 1301 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03005-0

Veillonella montpellierensis sp. nov., a novel, anaerobic, Gram-negative coccus isolated from human clinical samples

Jumas-Bilak, Estelle, Carlier, Jean-Philippe, Jean-Pierre, Helene, Teyssier, Corinne, Gay, Bernard, Campos, Josiane, Marchandin, Helene

p. 1311 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02952-0

Marinibacillus campisalis sp. nov., a moderate halophile isolated from a marine solar saltern in Korea, with emended description of the genus Marinibacillus

Yoon, Jung-Hoon, Kim, In-Gi, Schumann, Peter, Oh, Tae-Kwang, Park, Yong-Ha

p. 1317 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02779-0

Streptomyces drozdowiczii sp. nov., a novel cellulolytic streptomycete from soil in Brazil

Semedo, L. T. A. S., Gomes, R. C., Linhares, A. A., Duarte, G. F., Nascimento, R. P., Rosado, A. S., Margis-Pinheiro, M., Margis, R. et al.

p. 1323 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02844-0

Halomonas anticariensis sp. nov., from Fuente de Piedra, a saline-wetland wildfowl reserve in Malaga, southern Spain

Martinez-Canovas, M. Jose, Bejar, Victoria, Martinez-Checa, Fernando, Quesada, Emilia

p. 1329 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63108-0

Comparative analysis of ribonuclease P RNA of the planctomycetes

Butler, Margaret K., Fuerst, John A.

p. 1333 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03013-0

Kribbella solani sp. nov. and Kribbella jejuensis sp. nov., isolated from potato tuber and soil in Jeju, Korea

Song, Jaekyeong, Kim, Byung-Yong, Hong, Seung-Beom, Cho, Hyun-Suk, Sohn, Kyounghee, Chun, Jongsik, Suh, Joo-Won

p. 1345 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02953-0

Gram-Positive Bacteria

Clover proliferation phytoplasma: ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma trifolii’

Chuji Hiruki, Keri Wang

p. 1349–1353 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02842-0

Bacillus farraginis sp. nov., Bacillus fortis sp. nov. and Bacillus fordii sp. nov., isolated at dairy farms

Scheldeman, Patsy, Rodriguez-Diaz, Marina, Goris, Johan, Pil, Annelies, De Clerck, Elke, Herman, Lieve, De Vos, Paul, Logan, Niall A. et al.

p. 1355 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63095-0

Lactobacillus saerimneri sp. nov., isolated from pig faeces

Pedersen, Carsten, Roos, Stefan

p. 1365 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03057-0

Gram-Positive Bacteria

Curvibasidium cygneicollum gen. nov., sp. nov. and Curvibasidium pallidicorallinum sp. nov., novel taxa in the Microbotryomycetidae (Urediniomycetes), and their relationship with Rhodotorula fujisanensis and Rhodotorula nothofagi

Sampaio, Jose Paulo, Golubev, Wladyslav I., Fell, Jack W., Gadanho, Mario, Golubev, Nikita W.

p. 1401 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03037-0

Candida asparagi sp. nov., Candida diospyri sp. nov. and Candida qinlingensis sp. nov., novel anamorphic, ascomycetous yeast species

Lu, Hui-Zhong, Jia, Jian-Hua, Wang, Qi-Ming, Bai, Feng-Yan

p. 1409 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03055-0

Recommended standards for the description of new species of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria

Imhoff, Johannes F., Caumette, Pierre

p. 1415 https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.03002-0

Description of Enterococcus canis sp. nov. from dogs and reclassification of Enterococcus porcinus Teixeira et al. 2001 as a junior synonym of Enterococcus villorum Vancanneyt et al. 2001

De Graef, E. M., Devriese, L. A., Vancanneyt, M., Baele, M., Collins, M. D., Lefebvre, K., Swings, J., Haesebrouck, F.

p. 1423