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A report on 10 unrecorded bacterial species isolated from the Korean islands in 2022

  • Seung Yeol Shin (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Myung Kyum Kim (Department of Bio & Environmental Technology, Seoul Women's University) ;
  • Yochan Joung (Department of Biotechnology and Chemical Engineering, Gyeonggi University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Yi Hyun Jeon (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Ji Hye Jeong (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Hyun-Ju Noh (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Jaeho Song (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources) ;
  • Heeyoung Kang (Division of Microbiology, Honam National Institute of Biological Resources)
  • Received : 2023.04.06
  • Accepted : 2023.05.26
  • Published : 2023.08.04
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Abstract

To obtain unrecorded bacterial species from Korean islands, various samples were collected from the islands in 2022. After plating the samples on marine agar or Reasoner's 2A, and incubating aerobically, approximately 1,200 bacterial strains were isolated and identified using 16S rRNA gene sequences. A total of 10 strains showed ≥98.7% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with the bacterial species that were validly published but not reported in Korea. The unrecorded bacterial strains belong to three phyla, five classes, 10 orders, 10 families, and 10 genera, which are assigned to Sphingomonas, Falsirhodobacter and Asticcacaulis of the class Alphaproteobacteria; Colwellia and Halomonas of the class Gammaproteobacteria; Chitinophaga of the class Chitinophagia; Chryseobacterium of the class Flavobacteriia; Microlunatus, Zhihengliuella, and Streptomyces of the class Actinomycetia. The details of the unreported species including Gram reaction, colony and cell morphology, biochemical characteristics, and phylogenetic position are also provided in the description of the strains.

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Acknowledgement

This study was supported by the research grant, "Survey of Indigenous Species in Korean Islands" (HNIBR 202101111) from the Honam National Institute of Biological Resources of the Ministry of Environment in Korea.

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