Transfer of Several Phytopathogenic Pseudomonas Species to Acidovorax as Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae subsp. nov., comb. nov., Acidovorax avenae subsp. citrulli, Acidovorax avenae subsp. cattleyae, and Acidovorax konjaci

Verminephrobacter eiseniae gen. nov., sp. nov., a nephridial symbiont of the earthworm Eisenia foetida (Savigny)

“…reported for other species of the family Comamonadaceae was below 90 % (not shown; Willems et al, 1990Willems et al, , 1992Schulze et al, 1999). The profiles obtained in this study for the type strains of the reference Acidovorax species growing on ACMP plates and those reported in the literature for the corresponding species differed by less than 1 %.…”

“…Acidovorax-like 16S rRNA gene sequences are frequently recovered from wastewater treatment plants and other aquatic environments (Schweitzer et al, 2001;Hoshino et al, 2005;Manefield et al, 2005). The genus Acidovorax includes species isolated from soil and sludge (Willems et al, 1990;Schulze et al, 1999;Heylen et al, 2008), in addition to a group of plant pathogens with a varied host range (Willems et al, 1992;Gardan et al, 2000Gardan et al, , 2003. The present study reports the isolation and characterization of a relative of the genus Acidovorax from the nephridia of E. foetida.…”

“…The differences in incubation time reflected differences in growth rate and the time required for obtaining sufficient biomass. To account for growth medium effects, results for the recognized species of the genus Acidovorax were compared with data from Willems et al (1990Willems et al ( , 1992. FAME peaks were identified as equivalent chain-length (ECL) and their area expressed as percentages of total peak area.…”

NOTES: New Perspectives in the Classification of the Flavobacteria: Description of Chryseobacterium gen. nov., Bergeyella gen. nov., and Empedobacter nom. rev.

“…Criteria such as chemotaxonomic and classical phenotypic features are decisive for including all or some of these taxa in one genus. An example of such a polyphasic approach is genus delineation in the family Comamonadaceae (36). The genera Acidovorax, Aquaspirillum, Comamonas, Hydrogenophaga, Variovorax, and Xylophilus all branch at a base level of about 76"C, which corresponds to a level of divergence of about 5°C.…”

“…The genera Acidovorax, Aquaspirillum, Comamonas, Hydrogenophaga, Variovorax, and Xylophilus all branch at a base level of about 76"C, which corresponds to a level of divergence of about 5°C. Several of these genera (the genera Acidovorax, Aquaspirillum, and Comamonas) include species that occupy separate positions at the same base level (about 76°C) (36) [24,28]). Within this group, F. meningosepticum has the most aberrant fatty acid profile (28).…”