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Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov., isolated from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas.

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Title	Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov., isolated from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas.

Creator	Mayilraj, Shanmugam Suresh, K Schumann, Peter Kroppenstedt, R M Saini, H S

Subject	QR Microbiology

Description	The taxonomic position of a lemon-yellow-pigmented actinobacterium, strain K22-21(T), isolated from a soil sample from Lahaul-Spiti Valley in the Indian Himalayas, was determined using a polyphasic approach. The strain had phenotypic and chemical properties that were consistent with its classification in the genus Agrococcus. Alignment of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain K22-21(T) with sequences from Agrococcus jenensis DSM 9580(T), Agrococcus baldri DSM 14215(T) and Agrococcus citreus DSM 12453(T) revealed similarities of 98.5, 96.8 and 96.6 %, respectively. However, the level of DNA-DNA relatedness between strain K22-21(T) and A. jenensis was 55.1 %. The novel strain could be distinguished from type strains of the three species of the genus Agrococcus using DNA-DNA relatedness and phenotypic data. Based on these differences, strain K22-21(T) (=MTCC 7154(T)=DSM 17612(T)) should be classified as the type strain of a novel species of Agrococcus, for which the name Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov. is proposed.

Publisher	International Union of Microbiological Societies

Date	2006-08

Type	Article PeerReviewed

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://crdd.osdd.net/open/139/1/mayil2006.4.pdf Mayilraj, Shanmugam and Suresh, K and Schumann, Peter and Kroppenstedt, R M and Saini, H S (2006) Agrococcus lahaulensis sp. nov., isolated from a cold desert of the Indian Himalayas. International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology, 56 (Pt 8). pp. 1807-10. ISSN 1466-5026

Relation	http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/56/8/1807.long http://crdd.osdd.net/open/139/