Corynebacterium mendelii sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from Adélie penguin oral cavity

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KOUBLOVÁ Vendula SEDLÁŘ Karel SEDLÁČEK Ivo MUSILOVÁ Jana STAŇKOVÁ Eva BEZDÍČEK KRÁLOVÁ Stanislava KOUDELKOVÁ Sylva KRSEK Daniel ŠVEC Pavel

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
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Web https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006244
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.006244
Keywords Adélie penguin; Antarctica; Corynebacterium mendelii sp. nov.; James Ross Island; taxonomy
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Description The taxonomic status of strain P5891T, isolated from an Adélie penguin beak swab, was investigated. Based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence, the strain was identified as a potentially novel Corynebacterium species, with the highest sequence similarities to Corynebacterium rouxii FRC0190T (96.7?%) and Corynebacterium epidermidicanis DSM 45586T (96.6?%). The average nucleotide identity values between strain P5891T and C. rouxii FRC0190T and C. epidermidicanis DSM 45586T were 68.2 and 69.2?%, respectively. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain P5891T and C. rouxii FRC0190T and C. epidermidicanis DSM 45586T were 23.7 and 21.4?%, respectively. Phylogenetic trees based on the 16S rRNA sequence placed strain P5891T in a separate branch with Corynebacterium canis 1170T and Corynebacterium freiburgense 1045T, while a phylogenomic tree based on the Corynebacterium species core genome placed the strain next to Corynebacterium choanae 200CHT. Extensive phenotyping and genomic analyses clearly confirmed that strain P5891T represents a novel species of the genus Corynebacterium, for which the name Corynebacterium mendelii sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain P5891T (=CCM 8862T=LMG 31627T).
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