ALL CHANGE FOR IJSEM:

Aidan Parte

All change for IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 625-626. [Full Text] [PDF]  

VALIDATION LIST NO. 91:

Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 627-628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NOTIFICATION LIST:

Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 53, part 1, of the IJSEM
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 629-630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Archaea:

Edmond Jolivet, Stéphane L'Haridon, Erwan Corre, Patrick Forterre, and Daniel Prieur

Thermococcus gammatolerans sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic archaeon from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent that resists ionizing radiation
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 847-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

NEW TAXA: Gram-Positive Bacteria:

Laurent Schlegel, Francine Grimont, Elisabeth Ageron, Patrick A. D. Grimont, and Anne Bouvet

Reappraisal of the taxonomy of the Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex and related species: description of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus subsp. nov., S. gallolyticus subsp. macedonicus subsp. nov. and S. gallolyticus subsp. pasteurianus subsp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 631-645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Diego Mora, Mauro Scarpellini, Laura Franzetti, Silvia Colombo, and Antonietta Galli

Reclassification of Lactobacillus maltaromicus (Miller et al. 1974) DSM 20342^T and DSM 20344 and Carnobacterium piscicola (Collins et al. 1987) DSM 20730^T and DSM 20722 as Carnobacterium maltaromaticum comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 675-678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Actinobaculum urinale sp. nov., from human urine
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 679-682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janette Law-Brown and Paul R. Meyers

Enterococcus phoeniculicola sp. nov., a novel member of the enterococci isolated from the uropygial gland of the Red-billed Woodhoopoe, Phoeniculus purpureus
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 683-685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary phylogenetic tree]  

Jung-Hoon Yoon, Kook Hee Kang, and Yong-Ha Park

Halobacillus salinus sp. nov., isolated from a salt lake on the coast of the East Sea in Korea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 687-693. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. F. Yassin, R. M. Kroppenstedt, and W. Ludwig

Corynebacterium glaucum sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 705-709. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Morio Ishikawa, Kazuyuki Nakajima, Miyoko Yanagi, Yasushi Yamamoto, and Kazuhide Yamasato

Marinilactibacillus psychrotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a halophilic and alkaliphilic marine lactic acid bacterium isolated from marine organisms in temperate and subtropical areas of Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 711-720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joachim Wink, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, Gerhard Seibert, and Erko Stackebrandt

Actinomadura namibiensis sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 721-724. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Täubel, Peter Kämpfer, Sandra Buczolits, Werner Lubitz, and Hans-Jürgen Busse

Bacillus barbaricus sp. nov., isolated from an experimental wall painting
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 725-730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul R. Meyers, Donovan S. Porter, Clifford Omorogie, J. Motsamai Pule, and Thembelani Kwetane

Streptomyces speibonae sp. nov., a novel streptomycete with blue substrate mycelium isolated from South African soil
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 801-805. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew D. Collins, Robert Higgins, Serge Messier, Madeleine Fortin, Roger A. Hutson, Paul A. Lawson, and Enevold Falsen

Allofustis seminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive, catalase-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from pig semen
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 811-814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric Verdin, Pascal Salar, Jean-Luc Danet, Elia Choueiri, Fouad Jreijiri, Souheir El Zammar, Brigitte Gélie, Joseph M. Bové, and Monique Garnier

‘Candidatus Phytoplasma phoenicium’ sp. nov., a novel phytoplasma associated with an emerging lethal disease of almond trees in Lebanon and Iran
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 833-838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PCR amplification profiles]  

Azza A. Al-Musallam, Sheikha S. Al-Zarban, Yunis A. Fasasi, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, and Erko Stackebrandt

Amycolatopsis keratiniphila sp. nov., a novel keratinolytic soil actinomycete from Kuwait
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 871-874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

NEW TAXA: Proteobacteria:

Lyudmila A. Romanenko, Natalia V. Zhukova, Manfred Rohde, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Valery V. Mikhailov, and Erko Stackebrandt

Glaciecola mesophila sp. nov., a novel marine agar-digesting bacterium
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 647-651. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthias Labrenz, Paul A. Lawson, Brian J. Tindall, Matthew D. Collins, and Peter Hirsch

Saccharospirillum impatiens gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel -Proteobacterium isolated from hypersaline Ekho Lake (East Antarctica)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 653-660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Kevin T. Finneran, Claudia V. Johnsen, and Derek R. Lovley

Rhodoferax ferrireducens sp. nov., a psychrotolerant, facultatively anaerobic bacterium that oxidizes acetate with the reduction of Fe(III)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 669-673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irene Wagner-Döbler, Holger Rheims, Andreas Felske, Rüdiger Pukall, and Brian J. Tindall

Jannaschia helgolandensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel abundant member of the marine Roseobacter clade from the North Sea
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 731-738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [TLC of polar lipids]  

F. L. Thompson, C. C. Thompson, Y. Li, B. Gomez-Gil, J. Vandenberghe, B. Hoste, and J. Swings

Vibrio kanaloae sp. nov., Vibrio pomeroyi sp. nov. and Vibrio chagasii sp. nov., from sea water and marine animals
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 753-759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [REP-PCR fingerprints and variable characters]  

Michail M. Yakimov, Laura Giuliano, Gabriella Gentile, Ermanno Crisafi, Tatyana N. Chernikova, Wolf-Rainer Abraham, Heinrich Lünsdorf, Kenneth N. Timmis, and Peter N. Golyshin

Oleispira antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbonoclastic marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic coastal sea water
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 779-785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurice L. G. C. Luijten, Jasperien de Weert, Hauke Smidt, Henricus T. S. Boschker, Willem M. de Vos, Gosse Schraa, and Alfons J. M. Stams

Description of Sulfurospirillum halorespirans sp. nov., an anaerobic, tetrachloroethene-respiring bacterium, and transfer of Dehalospirillum multivorans to the genus Sulfurospirillum as Sulfurospirillum multivorans comb. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 787-793. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Louis Gardan, David E. Stead, Catherine Dauga, and Moniek Gillis

Acidovorax valerianellae sp. nov., a novel pathogen of lamb's lettuce [Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.]
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 795-800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Expanded neighbour-joining tree]  

Geert Huys, Margo Cnockaert, J. Michael Janda, and Jean Swings

Escherichia albertii sp. nov., a diarrhoeagenic species isolated from stool specimens of Bangladeshi children
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 807-810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lyudmila A. Romanenko, Masataka Uchino, Valery V. Mikhailov, Natalia V. Zhukova, and Tai Uchimura

Marinomonas primoryensis sp. nov., a novel psychrophile isolated from coastal sea-ice in the Sea of Japan
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 829-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georges Wauters, Thierry De Baere, Anne Willems, Enevold Falsen, and Mario Vaneechoutte

Description of Comamonas aquatica comb. nov. and Comamonas kerstersii sp. nov. for two subgroups of Comamonas terrigena and emended description of Comamonas terrigena
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 859-862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Strain details and sequence similarities]  

Geert Huys, Marianne Pearson, Peter Kämpfer, Rik Denys, Margo Cnockaert, Valerie Inglis, and Jean Swings

Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. ranae subsp. nov., isolated from septicaemic farmed frogs in Thailand
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 885-891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Peter Kämpfer, Sandra Buczolits, Andreas Albrecht, Hans-Jürgen Busse, and Erko Stackebrandt

Towards a standardized format for the description of a novel species (of an established genus): Ochrobactrum gallinifaecis sp. nov.
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 893-896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data][TLC of polar lipids]  

NEW TAXA: Other Bacteria:

M. L. Miroshnichenko, S. L'Haridon, C. Jeanthon, A. N. Antipov, N. A. Kostrikina, B. J. Tindall, P. Schumann, S. Spring, E. Stackebrandt, and E. A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya

Oceanithermus profundus gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, microaerophilic, facultatively chemolithoheterotrophic bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 747-752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Celia J. Hugo, Paul Segers, Bart Hoste, Marc Vancanneyt, and Karel Kersters

Chryseobacterium joostei sp. nov., isolated from the dairy environment
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 771-777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Antimicrobial sensitivity]  

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

Spirochaeta americana sp. nov., a new haloalkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic spirochaete isolated from soda Mono Lake in California
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 815-821. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ken Takai, Hideki Kobayashi, Kenneth H. Nealson, and Koki Horikoshi

Sulfurihydrogenibium subterraneum gen. nov., sp. nov., from a subsurface hot aquifer
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 823-827. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Growth curves]  

Ken Takai, Hideki Kobayashi, Kenneth H. Nealson, and Koki Horikoshi

Deferribacter desulfuricans sp. nov., a novel sulfur-, nitrate- and arsenate-reducing thermophile isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 839-846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Micrographs and growth curves]  

Fei Zhu, Shan Wang, and Peijin Zhou

Flavobacterium xinjiangense sp. nov. and Flavobacterium omnivorum sp. nov., novel psychrophiles from the China No. 1 glacier
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 853-857. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoshi Nakagawa, Ken Takai, Koki Horikoshi, and Yoshihiko Sako

Persephonella hydrogeniphila sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing bacterium from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent chimney
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 863-869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

NEW TAXA: Unicellular Eukaryotes:

Takahiko Nagahama, Makiko Hamamoto, Takashi Nakase, and Koki Horikoshi

Rhodotorula benthica sp. nov. and Rhodotorula calyptogenae sp. nov., novel yeast species from animals collected from the deep-sea floor, and Rhodotorula lysiniphila sp. nov., which is related phylogenetically
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 897-903. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wladyslav I. Golubev, Mário Gadanho, José P. Sampaio, and Nikita W. Golubev

Cryptococcus nemorosus sp. nov. and Cryptococcus perniciosus sp. nov., related to Papiliotrema Sampaio et al. (Tremellales)
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 905-911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EVOLUTION, PHYLOGENY AND BIODIVERSITY:

Sophie A. Granier, Laetitia Plaisance, Véronique Leflon-Guibout, Evelyne Lagier, Serge Morand, Fred W. Goldstein, and Marie-Hélène Nicolas-Chanoine

Recognition of two genetic groups in the Klebsiella oxytoca taxon on the basis of chromosomal -lactamase and housekeeping gene sequences as well as ERIC-1R PCR typing
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 661-668. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Consensus sequence alignments]  

Dong Xu and Jean-Charles Côté

Phylogenetic relationships between Bacillus species and related genera inferred from comparison of 3' end 16S rDNA and 5' end 16S–23S ITS nucleotide sequences
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 695-704. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequence alignment]  

Vincent Ramisse, Jacques Balandreau, François Thibault, Dominique Vidal, Gilles Vergnaud, and Philippe Normand

DNA–DNA hybridization study of Burkholderia species using genomic DNA macro-array analysis coupled to reverse genome probing
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 739-746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Van Loock, D. Vanrompay, B. Herrmann, J. Vander Stappen, G. Volckaert, B. M. Goddeeris, and K. D. E. Everett

Missing links in the divergence of Chlamydophila abortus from Chlamydophila psittaci
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 761-770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Sequence alignments]  

M. A. Yáñez, V. Catalán, D. Apráiz, M. J. Figueras, and A. J. Martínez-Murcia

Phylogenetic analysis of members of the genus Aeromonas based on gyrB gene sequences
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 875-883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [gyrB sequence similarities]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Minutes:

R. A. Whiley

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of staphylococci and streptococci: Minutes of the closed meeting, 13 October 1999, Auckland, New Zealand
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 913-914. [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. A. Whiley and M. Kilian

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of staphylococci and streptococci: Minutes of the closed meeting, 31 July 2002, Paris, France
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 915-917. [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Schumann and H.-J. Busse

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the suborder Micrococcineae: Minutes of the inaugural meeting, 29 July 2002, Paris, France
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 919. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Russell H. Vreeland and Antonio Ventosa

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of the Halomonadaceae: Minutes of the inaugural meetings, 31 July 2002, Paris, France
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 921-922. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingar Olsen and Haroun N. Shah

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Gram-negative anaerobic rods: Minutes of the meeting, 29 July 2002, Paris, France
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 923-924. [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Kämpfer and D. P. Labeda

International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Streptomycetaceae: Minutes of the meeting, 30 July 2002, Paris, France
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 925. [Full Text] [PDF]  

INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON SYSTEMATICS OF PROKARYOTES: Opinions:

Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Valid publication of the genus name Thermodesulfobacterium and the species names Thermodesulfobacterium commune (Zeikus et al. 1983) and Thermodesulfobacterium thermophilum (ex Desulfovibrio thermophilus Rozanova and Khudyakova 1974). Opinion 71
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 927. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Strain DSM 6035 is the type strain of Lactobacillus panis (Wiese et al. 1996). Opinion 72
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Paenibacillus durus (Collins et al. 1994, formerly Clostridium durum Smith and Cato 1974) has priority over Paenibacillus azotofixans (Seldin et al. 1984). Opinion 73
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes

Strain NCIMB 13488 may serve as the type strain of Halorubrum trapanicum. Opinion 74
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003 53: 933. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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