| iamia majanohamensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinobacterium isolated from sea cucumber holothuria edulis, and proposal of iamiaceae fam. nov. | a novel, gram-positive bacterial strain, f12(t), was isolated from the abdominal epidermis of a sea cucumber, holothuria edulis, collected from seawater off the coast of japan. according to 16s rrna gene sequence analysis, this strain represents a novel, deep-rooting lineage within the class actinobacteria and clusters with uncultured bacteria and acidimicrobium ferrooxidans. compared to species with validly published names, the highest 16s rrna gene sequence similarity (89.8 %) was to acidimicr ... | 2009 | 19329622 |