Al.gi.bac'ter
. L. fem. n.
alga
seaweed; N.L. masc. n.
bacter
rod; N.L. masc. n.
Algibacter
rod isolated from seaweed.
Bacteroidetes / Flavobacteriia / Flavobacteriales / Flavobacteriaceae / Algibacter
The genus
Algibacter,
a member of the family
Flavobacteriaceae
, was proposed by Nedashkovskaya et al. in 2004 to accommodate Gram‐negative, facultatively anaerobic, gliding, and oxidase‐positive bacteria. The close phylogenetic relatives of the genus
Algibacter
are members of the family
Flavobacteriaceae
such as
Arenitalea, Changchengzhania, Flaviramulus, Gaetbulibacter, Litoribaculum, Mariniflexile, Postechiella, Sabulilitoribacter
, and
Tamlana
with sequence similarity ranges 94.9–97.1, 93.7–96.0, 93.3–96.4, 93.1–96.9, 92.3–96.1, 92–95.5, 93.9–95.6, 94.2–96.6, and 92.1–96.8%, respectively. On marine agar, colonies of the majority
Algibacter
species are regular, round, low convex, shiny, and yellow or orange pigmented. Growth occurs with 0–8% NaCl, at pH 5.0–11.0, and at 0–55°C. The optimal growth is observed at 15–28°C, at pH 7.0–8.0, and with 0.5–3% NaCl.
Algibacter
strains cannot hydrolyze chitin and urea. The predominant cellular fatty acids of the known members of the genus
Algibacter
are iso‐C
15:0
(4.7–34.4%), iso‐C
15:1
G (5.0–22.8%), iso‐C
15:0
3‐OH (4.5–16.7%), and iso‐C
17:0
3‐OH (3.1–16.9%). The major respiratory quinone is MK‐6. The main polar lipid is phosphatidylethanolamine. At the time of writing, the genus
Algibacter
comprised 14 validly described species that were isolated from the different marine environments including seawater, sediments, seaweeds, and echinoderms. The type species of the genus is
Algibacter lectus
. The
Algibacter
species share 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities ranging from 94.2 to 99.4% to one another. The DNA–DNA relatedness between the type strains of the
Algibacter
species is 15–34%.
DNA G + C content (mol%)
: 30–41 (
T
m,
HPLC and genome sequence).
Type species
:
Algibacter lectus
Nedashkovskaya, Kim, Han, Rhee, Lysenko, Rohde, Zhukova, Frolova, Mikhailov and Bae 2004, 1260
VP
.