sp. nov., a novel yellow bacterium isolated from soil.

An aerobic, non-motile, Gram-stain-positive bacterium, designated strain NEAU-Y5, was isolated from a soil sample collected from Northeast Agricultural University, Heilongjiang province. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain NEAU-Y5 belonged to the genus and showed high 16S rRNA sequence similarity to (98.9 %), (98.9 %), (98.5 %), (98.5 %), (98.5 %), (98.3 %), and (98.1 %), followed by other members of the genus (<98 %), and phylogenetically clustered with and . Strain NEAU-Y5 was found to grow at 4-40 °C (optimum, 28 °C), pH 6.0-12.0 (optimum, pH 7.0), and tolerated 0-6 % NaCl (w/v). The cell-wall peptidoglycan type was l-Lys-d-Asp. The whole-cell hydrolysates contained glucose, galactose, and ribose. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, hydroxyphosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylinositol mannoside, and glucosamine unknown phospholipid. Major fatty acids were anteiso-C and anteiso-C. The predominant menaquinone was MK-9(H). The DNA G+C content was 73.4 mol%. The digital DNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values between strain NEAU-Y5 and the type strains of the genus ranged from 18.6 to 23.5 % and from 77.3 to 81.6 %, respectively. Based on morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic, and phylogenetic data, as well as digital DNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values, the novel strain NEAU-Y5 could be differentiated from its closest relatives. Therefore, the strain represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NEAU-Y5 (=CCTCC AA 2019087=DSM 110637).