| paraferrimonas sedimenticola gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family ferrimonadaceae. | three strains (mok-106(t), mok-142 and mok-143) were isolated from marine sediment samples collected from the coast of okinawa island, japan. on the basis of 16s rrna gene sequence comparisons, the isolates were affiliated with the family ferrimonadaceae; shewanella denitrificans and ferrimonas balearica were the closest relatives, having sequence similarities of 93.7 and 93.0 %, respectively. the novel isolates shared high levels of 16s rrna gene sequence similarity with each other (98.7-99.3 % ... | 2007 | 17625182 |