“…Phylogenetic analysis showed that strain MIC1-18 T was included in the low-G+C content Gram-positive bacteria (Collins et al, 1991;Schleifer & Ludwig, 1996). The topologies of the trees generated by the NJ and ML methods were almost identical, and strain MIC1-18 T formed a distinct subline branching at the periphery of the 16S rRNA gene sequence cluster that embraced the genera Alkalibacterium (Ntougias & Russell, 2001), Alloiococcus (Aguirre & Collins, 1992), Allofustis (Collins et al, 2003), Atopococcus (Collins et al, 2005), Atopostipes (Cotta et al, 2004), Carnobacterium (Collins et al, 1987), Dolosigranulum (Aguirre et al, 1993), Desemzia (Stackebrandt et al, 1999), Isobaculum (Collins et al, 2002), Marinilactibacillus (Ishikawa et al, 2003) and Trichococcus (Scheff et al, 1984) (Fig. 1).…”