Paenibacillus tarimensis sp. nov., isolated from sand in Xinjiang, China

College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China Correspondence Chengxiang Fang cxfang{at}whu.edu.cn A Gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, spore-forming bacterium, strain SA-7-6 T , was isolated from desert soil in China and was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. The strain grew optimally at pH 7.5 and 37 °C. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain SA-7-6 T was 53.7 mol%. The predominant menaquinone was MK-7. The major cellular fatty acid was anteiso-C 15 : 0 . Strain SA-7-6 T contained meso -diaminopimelic acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that the new isolate shared highest similarity with Paenibacillus glycanilyticus JCM 11221 T (96.6 %) and Paenibacillus daejeonensis KCTC 3745 T (96.6 %). Based on morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics, strain SA-7-6 T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Paenibaillus , for which the name Paenibacillus tarimensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SA-7-6 T (=CCTCC AB 206108 T =DSM 19409 T ). These authors contributed equally to this work. The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain SA-7-6 T is EF125184 .