Reclassification of Brevibacterium oxydans (Chatelain and Second 1966) as Microbacterium oxydans comb. nov.
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- Published by Microbiology Society in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
- Vol. 49 (1) , 175-177
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-49-1-175
Abstract
Phylogenetic and chemoteaxonomic analyses indicate that Brevibacterium oxydans is closely related to species of the genus Microbacterium, namely Microbacterium liquefaciens, Microbacterium luteolum and Microbacterium saperdae. DNA-DNA reassociation values of less than 60% between Brevibacterium oxydans and these three Microbacterium species support the distinctness of this miclclassified Brevibacterium species, which is reclassified as Microbacterium oxydans comb. nov.Keywords
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