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http://dx.doi.org/10.12651/JSR.2021.10.1.012

A report of 35 unrecorded bacterial species belonging to the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria in Korea  

Jung, Hye Su (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University)
Yoon, Jung-Hoon (Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Sungkyunkwan University)
Joh, Kiseong (Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies)
Seong, Chi-Nam (Department of Biology, Sunchon National University)
Kim, Won-Yong (Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University)
Im, Wan-Taek (Department of Biotechnology, Hankyong National University)
Kim, Myung-Kyum (Department of Bio and Environmental Technology, College of Natural Science, Seoul Women's University)
Cha, Chang-Jun (Department of Systems Biotechnology, Chung-Ang University)
Kim, Seung-Bum (Department of Microbiology, Chungnam National University)
Jeon, Che-Ok (Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University)
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Journal of Species Research / v.10, no.1, 2021 , pp. 12-22 More about this Journal
Abstract
During a comprehensive investigation of indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea, 25 and 10 bacterial strains assigned to the classes Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria, respectively, were isolated from diverse environmental habitats, including soil, mud, tidal field, sea water, sand, rusted iron, and leaf. Based on their high 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities (>98.7%) and the formation of robust phylogenetic clades with type species, each strain was assigned to an independent and predefined bacterial species. Since there were no published or official reports regarding these 35 isolates in Korea, they - 25 species of 14 families in the 5 orders of Alphaproteobacteria and 10 species of 3 families in the two orders of Betaproteobacteria - have been reported as unrecorded species in Korea. In addition, Gram reaction, colony and cell morphology, basic biochemical characteristic, isolation source, and strain ID of each species are also described in the species description sections.
Keywords
Alphaproteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; unrecorded species; bacterial diversity; 16S rRNA; taxonomy; indigenous prokaryotic species in Korea;
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