Journal of Species Research

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Description of 41 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea, isolated from freshwater in 2021

  • Jung-Hun Jo (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Seung-Bum Kim (Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Ji-Eun Im (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Se-Yoon Chun (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University) ;
  • Wan-Taek Im (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University)
  • Received : 2022.12.19
  • Accepted : 2024.02.22
  • Published : 2024.11.30
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Abstract

Here we describe indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea, a total of 41 bacterial strains were isolated from freshwater from the Republic of Korea. From the high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (>98.7%) and formation of a robust phylogenetic clade with the closest species, it was determined that each strain belonged to predefined bacterial species. There is no official report that these 41 species belonged to 5 phyla, 10 classes, 18 orders, 23 families, and 29 genera, which were assigned to Streptomyces, Mycolicibacterium, Smaragdicoccus, Nocardiopsis, and Nocardia of the phylum Actinobacteria; Runella, Flavobacterium, Algoriphagus, Sphingobacterium, and Aequorivita of the phylum Bacteroidota; Paenibacillus, Bacillus, Metabacillus, and Fredinandcohnia of the phylum Firmicutes; Sphingobium, Erythrobacter, Duganella, Methylopila, Novosphingobium, Azospirillum, Simplicispira, Corallococcus, Pseudomonas, Devosia, Pseudorhodoferax, Pseudomonas, Prolinoborus, Pectobacterium, and Aquabacterium of the phylum Proteobacteria; Proshecobacter of the phylum Verrucomicrobia. Gram reaction, colony and cell morphology, basic biochemical characteristics, isolation source, and strain IDs are also described in the species description section.

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This research was supported by the "Survey of freshwater organisms (Prokaryotes)" (NNIBR202101204) research program of the Nakdonggang National Institute of Biological Resources.

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