VALIDATION LIST NO. 93:

Valid publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1219-1220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

NOTIFICATION LIST:

Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 3, of the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1221-1222. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

NEW TAXA: Archaea:

Susumu Asakawa and Kazunari Nagaoka

Methanoculleus bourgensis, Methanoculleus olentangyi and Methanoculleus oldenburgensis are subjective synonyms
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1551-1552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Norio Kurosawa, Yuko H. Itoh, and Takashi Itoh

Reclassification of Sulfolobus hakonensis Takayanagi et al. 1996 as Metallosphaera hakonensis comb. nov. based on phylogenetic evidence and DNA G+C content
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1607-1608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Gram-Positive Bacteria:

Heleen P. Goorissen, Henricus T. S. Boschker, Alfons J. M. Stams, and Theo A. Hansen

Isolation of thermophilic Desulfotomaculum strains with methanol and sulfite from solfataric mud pools, and characterization of Desulfotomaculum solfataricum sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1223-1229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary image]  

Jung-Sook Lee, Keun Chul Lee, Yu-Ryang Pyun, and Kyung Sook Bae

Arthrobacter koreensis sp. nov., a novel alkalitolerant bacterium from soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1277-1280. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tree]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, In-Gi Kim, Kook Hee Kang, Tae-Kwang Oh, and Yong-Ha Park

Bacillus marisflavi sp. nov. and Bacillus aquimaris sp. nov., isolated from sea water of a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1297-1303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Expanded 16S rDNA-based phylogenetic tree]  

Debby V. Cousins, Ricardo Bastida, Angel Cataldi, Viviana Quse, Sharon Redrobe, Sue Dow, Padraig Duignan, Alan Murray, Christine Dupont, Niyaz Ahmed, Des M. Collins, W. Ray Butler, David Dawson, Diego Rodríguez, Julio Loureiro, Maria Isabel Romano, A. Alito, M. Zumarraga, and Amelia Bernardelli

Tuberculosis in seals caused by a novel member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: Mycobacterium pinnipedii sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1305-1314. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ali Osman Belduz, Sabriye Dulger, and Zihni Demirbag

Anoxybacillus gonensis sp. nov., a moderately thermophilic, xylose-utilizing, endospore-forming bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1315-1320. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georges Wauters, Véronique Avesani, Kim Laffineur, Jacqueline Charlier, Michèle Janssens, Bernard Van Bosterhaut, and Michel Delmée

Brevibacterium lutescens sp. nov., from human and environmental samples
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1321-1325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [16S rDNA sequence similarities]  

Hidetoshi Matsuyama, Isao Yumoto, Takuji Kudo, and Osamu Shida

Rhodococcus tukisamuensis sp. nov., isolated from soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1333-1337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. S. N. Reddy, G. I. Matsumoto, and S. Shivaji

Sporosarcina macmurdoensis sp. nov., from a cyanobacterial mat sample from a pond in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1363-1367. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irmgard Suominen, Cathrin Spröer, Peter Kämpfer, Frederick A. Rainey, Kari Lounatmaa, and Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen

Paenibacillus stellifer sp. nov., a cyclodextrin-producing species isolated from paperboard
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1369-1374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Detailed fatty acid compositions]  

Hamadi I. Boga, Wolfgang Ludwig, and Andreas Brune

Sporomusa aerivorans sp. nov., an oxygen-reducing homoacetogenic bacterium from the gut of a soil-feeding termite
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1397-1404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wen-Jun Li, Ping Xu, Li-Ping Zhang, Shu-Kun Tang, Xiao-Long Cui, Pei-Hong Mao, Li-Hua Xu, Peter Schumann, Erko Stackebrandt, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Streptomonospora alba sp. nov., a novel halophilic actinomycete, and emended description of the genus Streptomonospora Cui et al. 2001
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1421-1425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [16S rDNA-based neighbour-joining tree]  

Kwang Kyu Kim, Chang Soo Lee, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, Erko Stackebrandt, and Sung Taik Lee

Gordonia sihwensis sp. nov., a novel nitrate-reducing bacterium isolated from a wastewater-treatment bioreactor
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1427-1433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lubov V. Dorofeeva, Valentina I. Krausova, Lyudmila I. Evtushenko, and James M. Tiedje

Agromyces albus sp. nov., isolated from a plant (Androsace sp.)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1435-1438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erko Stackebrandt, Peter Schumann, Esther Schüler, and Hans Hippe

Reclassification of Desulfotomaculum auripigmentum as Desulfosporosinus auripigmenti corrig., comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1439-1443. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Val Hall, Matthew D. Collins, Paul A. Lawson, Enevold Falsen, and Brian I. Duerden

Actinomyces nasicola sp. nov., isolated from a human nose
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1445-1448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hans-Jürgen Busse, Christian Zlamala, Sandra Buczolits, Werner Lubitz, Peter Kämpfer, and Mariko Takeuchi

Promicromonospora vindobonensis sp. nov. and Promicromonospora aerolata sp. nov., isolated from the air in the medieval ‘Virgilkapelle’ in Vienna
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1503-1507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [DNA-DNA hybridization and micrographs]  

Elizabeth Miranda-Tello, Marie-Laure Fardeau, José Sepúlveda, Luis Fernández, Jean-Luc Cayol, Pierre Thomas, and Bernard Ollivier

Garciella nitratireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, thermophilic, nitrate- and thiosulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from an oilfield separator in the Gulf of Mexico
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1509-1514. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Val Hall, Matthew D. Collins, Roger A. Hutson, Elisabeth Inganäs, Enevold Falsen, and Brian I. Duerden

Actinomyces oricola sp. nov., from a human dental abscess
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1515-1518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazunori Hatano, Tadashi Nishii, and Hiroaki Kasai

Taxonomic re-evaluation of whorl-forming Streptomyces (formerly Streptoverticillium) species by using phenotypes, DNA–DNA hybridization and sequences of gyrB, and proposal of Streptomyces luteireticuli (ex Katoh and Arai 1957) corrig., sp. nov., nom. rev.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1519-1529. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Isao Yumoto, Shingo Yamaga, Yoko Sogabe, Yoshinobu Nodasaka, Hidetoshi Matsuyama, Kenji Nakajima, and Akio Suemori

Bacillus krulwichiae sp. nov., a halotolerant obligate alkaliphile that utilizes benzoate and m-hydroxybenzoate
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1531-1536. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keiichi Goto, Kaoru Mochida, Mika Asahara, Masayuki Suzuki, Hiroaki Kasai, and Akira Yokota

Alicyclobacillus pomorum sp. nov., a novel thermo-acidophilic, endospore-forming bacterium that does not possess -alicyclic fatty acids, and emended description of the genus Alicyclobacillus
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1537-1544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Phylogenetic Trees]  

Wen-Jun Li, Ping Xu, Shu-Kun Tang, Li-Hua Xu, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, Erko Stackebrandt, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Prauserella halophila sp. nov. and Prauserella alba sp. nov., moderately halophilic actinomycetes from saline soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1545-1549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsuko Matsumoto, Yoko Takahashi, Mayumi Shinose, Akio Seino, Yuzuru Iwai, and Satoshi Omura

Longispora albida gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel genus of the family Micromonosporaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1553-1559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena Pikuta, David Cleland, and Jane Tang

Aerobic growth of Anoxybacillus pushchinoensis K1^T: emended descriptions of A. pushchinoensis and the genus Anoxybacillus
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1561-1562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wen-Jun Li, Shu-Kun Tang, Erko Stackebrandt, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, Peter Schumann, Li-Hua Xu, and Cheng-Lin Jiang

Saccharomonospora paurometabolica sp. nov., a moderately halophilic actinomycete isolated from soil in China
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1591-1594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. F. Yassin, B. Sträubler, P. Schumann, and K. P. Schaal

Nocardia puris sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1595-1599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. P. Labeda, J. M. Donahue, N. M. Williams, S. F. Sells, and M. M. Henton

Amycolatopsis kentuckyensis sp. nov., Amycolatopsis lexingtonensis sp. nov. and Amycolatopsis pretoriensis sp. nov., isolated from equine placentas
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1601-1605. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lin Zhu, Wei Li, and Xiuzhu Dong

Species identification of genus Bifidobacterium based on partial HSP60 gene sequences and proposal of Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum subsp. porcinum subsp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1619-1623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Strains and GenBank accession numbers]  

Yanfen Xue, Xuesong Sun, Peijin Zhou, Rulin Liu, Fenglai Liang, and Yanhe Ma

Gordonia paraffinivorans sp. nov., a hydrocarbon-degrading actinomycete isolated from an oil-producing well
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1643-1646. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sylva Mannerová, Roman Pantucek, Jirí Doskar, Pavel Svec, Cindy Snauwaert, Marc Vancanneyt, Jean Swings, and Ivo Sedlácek

Macrococcus brunensis sp. nov., Macrococcus hajekii sp. nov. and Macrococcus lamae sp. nov., from the skin of llamas
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1647-1654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Proteobacteria:

Peter F. Dunfield, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Natalia E. Suzina, Yuri A. Trotsenko, and Svetlana N. Dedysh

Methylocella silvestris sp. nov., a novel methanotroph isolated from an acidic forest cambisol
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1231-1239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aboubakar S. Ouattara, Essokazi A. Assih, Sébastien Thierry, Jean-Luc Cayol, Marc Labat, Oscar Monroy, and Hervé Macarie

Bosea minatitlanensis sp. nov., a strictly aerobic bacterium isolated from an anaerobic digester
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1247-1251. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hans-Jürgen Busse, Ewald B. M. Denner, Sandra Buczolits, Mirja Salkinoja-Salonen, Antonio Bennasar, and Peter Kämpfer

Sphingomonas aurantiaca sp. nov., Sphingomonas aerolata sp. nov. and Sphingomonas faeni sp. nov., air- and dustborne and Antarctic, orange-pigmented, psychrotolerant bacteria, and emended description of the genus Sphingomonas
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1253-1260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Riboprints and TLC of polar lipids]  

José M. González, Joseph S. Covert, William B. Whitman, James R. Henriksen, Frank Mayer, Birgit Scharf, Rüdiger Schmitt, Alison Buchan, Jed A. Fuhrman, Ronald P. Kiene, and Mary Ann Moran

Silicibacter pomeroyi sp. nov. and Roseovarius nubinhibens sp. nov., dimethylsulfoniopropionate-demethylating bacteria from marine environments
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1261-1269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena V. Pikuta, Richard B. Hoover, Asim K. Bej, Damien Marsic, William B. Whitman, David Cleland, and Paul Krader

Desulfonatronum thiodismutans sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium capable of lithoautotrophic growth
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1327-1332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Coenye, Peter Vandamme, and John J. LiPuma

Ralstonia respiraculi sp. nov., isolated from the respiratory tract of cystic fibrosis patients
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1339-1342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Protein profiles]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Hongik Kim, Kook Hee Kang, Tae-Kwang Oh, and Yong-Ha Park

Transfer of Pseudomonas elongata Humm 1946 to the genus Microbulbifer as Microbulbifer elongatus comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1357-1361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Célia M. Manaia, Olga C. Nunes, and Balbina Nogales

Caenibacterium thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a thermophilic aerobic digester of municipal sludge
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1375-1382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Martín, M. C. Márquez, C. Sánchez-Porro, E. Mellado, D. R. Arahal, and A. Ventosa

Marinobacter lipolyticus sp. nov., a novel moderate halophile with lipolytic activity
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1383-1387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Célia M. Manaia, Balbina Nogales, and Olga C. Nunes

Tepidiphilus margaritifer gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a thermophilic aerobic digester
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1405-1410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Consuelo Esteve, Lázara Valera, Carmen Gutiérrez, and Antonio Ventosa

Taxonomic study of sucrose-positive Aeromonas jandaei-like isolates from faeces, water and eels: emendation of A. jandaei Carnahan et al. 1992
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1411-1419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure and Tables]  

Øystein Angen, Peter Ahrens, Peter Kuhnert, Henrik Christensen, and Reinier Mutters

Proposal of Histophilus somni gen. nov., sp. nov. for the three species incertae sedis ‘Haemophilus somnus’, ‘Haemophilus agni’ and ‘Histophilus ovis’
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1449-1456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Full phylogenetic tree]  

I. Cleenwerck, M. De Wachter, B. Hoste, D. Janssens, and J. Swings

Aquaspirillum dispar Hylemon et al. 1973 and Microvirgula aerodenitrificans Patureau et al. 1998 are subjective synonyms
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1457-1459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Undine Behrendt, Andreas Ulrich, and Peter Schumann

Fluorescent pseudomonads associated with the phyllosphere of grasses; Pseudomonas trivialis sp. nov., Pseudomonas poae sp. nov. and Pseudomonas congelans sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1461-1469. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena P. Ivanova, Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Natalia V. Zhukova, Dan V. Nicolau, Richard Christen, and Valery V. Mikhailov

Shewanella waksmanii sp. nov., isolated from a sipuncula (Phascolosoma japonicum)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1471-1477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Toru Shigematsu, Kazuyo Yumihara, Yutaka Ueda, Masaki Numaguchi, Shigeru Morimura, and Kenji Kida

Delftia tsuruhatensis sp. nov., a terephthalate-assimilating bacterium isolated from activated sludge
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1479-1483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. L. Thompson, C. C. Thompson, B. Hoste, K. Vandemeulebroecke, M. Gullian, and J. Swings

Vibrio fortis sp. nov. and Vibrio hepatarius sp. nov., isolated from aquatic animals and the marine environment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1495-1501. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Alexandr Nemec, Lenie Dijkshoorn, Ilse Cleenwerck, Thierry De Baere, Danielle Janssens, Tanny J. K. van der Reijden, Petr Jezek, and Mario Vaneechoutte

Acinetobacter parvus sp. nov., a small-colony-forming species isolated from human clinical specimens
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1563-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Gomez-Gil, F. L. Thompson, C. C. Thompson, and J. Swings

Vibrio pacinii sp. nov., from cultured aquatic organisms
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1569-1573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ge Hong Wei, Zhi Yuan Tan, Ming E Zhu, En Tao Wang, Su Zhen Han, and Wen Xin Chen

Characterization of rhizobia isolated from legume species within the genera Astragalus and Lespedeza grown in the Loess Plateau of China and description of Rhizobium loessense sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1575-1583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Sources of strains and expanded 16S rDNA-based phylogenetic tree]  

Carine Audiffrin, Jean-Luc Cayol, Catherine Joulian, Laurence Casalot, Pierre Thomas, Jean-Louis Garcia, and Bernard Ollivier

Desulfonauticus submarinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1585-1590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabiano L. Thompson, Bart Hoste, Katrien Vandemeulebroecke, and Jean Swings

Reclassification of Vibrio hollisae as Grimontia hollisae gen. nov., comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1615-1617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, In-Gi Kim, Kook Hee Kang, Tae-Kwang Oh, and Yong-Ha Park

Alteromonas marina sp. nov., isolated from sea water of the East Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1625-1630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Young Woon Lim, Keun Sik Baik, Suk Kyun Han, Seung Bum Kim, and Kyung Sook Bae

Burkholderia sordidicola sp. nov., isolated from the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete sordida
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1631-1636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Other Bacteria:

Stefanie Van Trappen, Joris Mergaert, and Jean Swings

Flavobacterium gelidilacus sp. nov., isolated from microbial mats in Antarctic lakes
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1241-1245. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Mikhail V. Vysotskii, and Valery V. Mikhailov

Vitellibacter vladivostokensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the phylum Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1281-1286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olga I. Nedashkovskaya, Makoto Suzuki, Mikhail V. Vysotskii, and Valery V. Mikhailov

Arenibacter troitsensis sp. nov., isolated from marine bottom sediment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1287-1290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosa Margesin, Cathrin Spröer, Peter Schumann, and Franz Schinner

Pedobacter cryoconitis sp. nov., a facultative psychrophile from alpine glacier cryoconite
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1291-1296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John P. Bowman, Carol Mancuso Nichols, and John A. E. Gibson

Algoriphagus ratkowskyi gen. nov., sp. nov., Brumimicrobium glaciale gen. nov., sp. nov., Cryomorpha ignava gen. nov., sp. nov. and Crocinitomix catalasitica gen. nov., sp. nov., novel flavobacteria isolated from various polar habitats
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1343-1355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bill W. Bogan, Wendy R. Sullivan, Kevin J. Kayser, KD Derr, Henry C. Aldrich, and J. Robert Paterek

Alkanindiges illinoisensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an obligately hydrocarbonoclastic, aerobic squalane-degrading bacterium isolated from oilfield soils
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1389-1395. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. L. Miroshnichenko, A. I. Slobodkin, N. A. Kostrikina, S. L'Haridon, O. Nercessian, S. Spring, E. Stackebrandt, E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya, and C. Jeanthon

Deferribacter abyssi sp. nov., an anaerobic thermophile from deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1637-1641. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

NEW TAXA: Unicellular Eukaryotes:

Teun Boekhout, Bart Theelen, Jos Houbraken, Vincent Robert, Gloria Scorzetti, Aviva Gafni, Uri Gerson, and Abraham Sztejnberg

Novel anamorphic mite-associated fungi belonging to the Ustilaginomycetes: Meira geulakonigii gen. nov., sp. nov., Meira argovae sp. nov. and Acaromyces ingoldii gen. nov., sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1655-1664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gabriella Giménez-Jurado, Cletus P. Kurtzman, William T. Starmer, and Isabel Spencer-Martins

Metschnikowia vanudenii sp. nov. and Metschnikowia lachancei sp. nov., from flowers and associated insects in North America
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1665-1670. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neza Cadez, Gé A. Poot, Peter Raspor, and Maudy Th. Smith

Hanseniaspora meyeri sp. nov., Hanseniaspora clermontiae sp. nov., Hanseniaspora lachancei sp. nov. and Hanseniaspora opuntiae sp. nov., novel apiculate yeast species
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1671-1680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures and Table]  

EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY AND BIODIVERSITY:

Simona Rossetti, Linda L. Blackall, Caterina Levantesi, Daniela Uccelletti, and Valter Tandoi

Phylogenetic and physiological characterization of a heterotrophic, chemolithoautotrophic Thiothrix strain isolated from activated sludge
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1271-1276. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Ulrike Purkhold, Michael Wagner, Gabriele Timmermann, Andreas Pommerening-Röser, and Hans-Peter Koops

16S rRNA and amoA-based phylogeny of 12 novel betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing isolates: extension of the dataset and proposal of a new lineage within the nitrosomonads
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1485-1494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Kazuhiro Yanagita, Akira Manome, Xian-Ying Meng, Satoshi Hanada, Takahiro Kanagawa, Takayasu Tsuchida, Roderick I. Mackie, and Yoichi Kamagata

Flow cytometric sorting, phylogenetic analysis and in situ detection of Oscillospira guillermondii, a large, morphologically conspicuous but uncultured ruminal bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1609-1614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Taxonomic Notes:

Stephen K. Farrand, Peter B. van Berkum, and Philippe Oger

Agrobacterium is a definable genus of the family Rhizobiaceae
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1681-1687. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. M. Young, L. D. Kuykendall, E. Martínez-Romero, A. Kerr, and H. Sawada

Classification and nomenclature of Agrobacterium and Rhizobium – a reply to Farrand et al. (2003)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1689-1695. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. J. Tindall

Taxonomic problems arising in the genera Haloterrigena and Natrinema
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1697-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. J. Tindall

The nomenclatural type of the genus Deleya and the consequences of Deleya aesta and Alcaligenes aquamarinus being synonyms
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 1699-1700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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