Genome-based reclassification of Bacillus okuhidensis as a later heterotypic synonym of Bacillus halodurans

Autor: Manik Prabhu Narsing Rao, Jian-Mei Che, Cetin Sengonca, Chen Qianqian, Bo Liu, Jie-ping Wang, Guo-Hong Liu, Wen-Jun Li, Zhou-Yan Dong
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 69:3599-3602
ISSN: 1466-5034
1466-5026
DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.003666
Popis: The present study was carried out to clarify the taxonomic relationship between two closely related Bacillus species, Bacillus okuhidensis Li et al. 2002 and Bacillus halodurans (ex Boyer 1973) Nielsen et al. 1995. The maximum-likelihood tree based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence and the phylogenomic tree based on concatenation of 16 protein-marker genes showed that these species were similar. Average nucleotide identity (ANIm 99.25 %, ANIb 98.2 %) and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values (93.5 %) between B. okuhidensis DSM 13666T and B. halodurans DSM 497T were greater than the threshold values for bacterial species delineation, indicating that they belong to the same species. Therefore, B. okuhidensis Li et al. 2002 should be reclassified as a later heterotypic synonym of B. halodurans (ex Boyer 1973) Nielsen et al. 1995.
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