Joachim Spergser

A bacterial strain designated 27C T isolated from the cloaca of a giant Asian pond turtle was subjected to polyphasic taxonomic characterization. The strain was Gram-stain negative and oxidase- and catalase-positive. It had highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Ottowia beijingensis GCS-AN-3 T (97.6 %) and Ottowia flava GY511 T 96.0% and less than 96.0 % to other established species including Ramlibacter rhizophilus YS3.2.7 T , Ottowia konkukae SK3863 T , Acidovorax caeni E-24608 T and Ottowia thiooxydans DSM 14619 T . Phylogenetically, strain 27C T formed a branch with O. beijingensis GCS-AN-3 T within the Ottowia clade. The genome size was 4.32 Mbp and the G+C content was 65.7 mol%. Strain 27C T shared highest ANIb values with O. beijingensis </jats:ital