PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Supapit Wongkuna
AU  - Sudeep Ghimire
AU  - Linto Antony
AU  - Surang Chankhamhaengdecha
AU  - Tavan Janvilisri
AU  - Joy Scaria
TI  - <em>Sellimonas caecigallum</em> sp. nov., description and genome sequence of a new member of the Sellimonas genus isolated from the cecum of feral chicken
AID  - 10.1101/714204
DP  - 2019 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 714204
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/24/714204.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/07/24/714204.full
AB  - An obligately anaerobic, non-motile, Gram-positive coccobacillus strain SW451 was isolated from pooled cecum contents of feral chickens. Comparative analysis based on 16s rRNA sequence showed that strain SW451 had 95.24% nucleotide sequence similarity to Sellimonas intestinalis BR31T, the closest species with a valid taxonomy. The genome of SW451 is 2.67 Mbp with 45.23 mol% of G+C content. The major cellular fatty acids were C16: 0, C14: 0 and C16: 0 DMA. Based on taxonogenomic, physiological, and biochemical analysis, the strain SW451 represents a new species of the genus Sellimonas, for which the name Sellimonas caecigallum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Sellimonas caecigallum is SW451 (=DSM 109473T)