| paramoritella alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family moritellaceae isolated in the republic of palau. | two strains of marine, heterotrophic, alkaliphilic bacteria, designated a3f-7(t) and ssthio04pa2-7c, were isolated from hard coral and marine sand, respectively, collected in the republic of palau. a phylogenetic analysis based on 16s rrna gene sequences showed that the isolates were related to members of the genus moritella. however, the sequence similarities between the isolates and the type strains of the moritella species were less than 93 %. the g+c contents of the isolates were around 57 m ... | 2009 | 19196787 |