Tomeu Viver, Roth E Conrad, Marianna Lucio, Mourad Harir, Mercedes Urdiain, Juan F Gago, Ana Suárez-Suárez, Esteban Bustos-Caparros, Rodrigo Sanchez-Martinez, Eva Mayol, Federico Fassetta, Jinfeng Pang, Ionuț Mădălin Gridan, Stephanus Venter, Fernando Santos, Bonnie Baxter, María E Llames, Adorján Cristea, Horia L Banciu, Brian P Hedlund, Matthew B Stott, Peter Kämpfer, Rudolf Amann, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Konstantinos T Konstantinidis, Ramon Rossello-Mora
Current -omics methods allow the collection of a large amount of information that helps in describing the microbial diversity in nature. Here, and as a result of a culturomic approach that rendered the collection of thousands of isolates from 5 different hypersaline sites (in Spain, USA and New Zealand), we obtained 21 strains that represent two new Salinibacter species. For these species we propose the names Salinibacter pepae sp. nov. and Salinibacter grassmerensis sp. nov. (showing average nucleotide identity (ANI) values < 95...
March 15, 2023: Systematic and Applied Microbiology