The 16S rRNA gene
sequence of strain JLT1210
T
was compared with those
available in GenBank using the BLAST program (NCBI) to
determine the approximate phylogenetic affiliation. The
16S rRNA gene sequence of strai n JLT1210
T
was aligned
with those of related Oceanicola species and phylogenetic
trees were constructed using the neighbour-joining and
maximum-parsimony methods of the
MEGA software
(Kumar et al., 2004; Fig. 2). Nearly complete 16S rRNA
gene sequences (1386 bp) were determined for strain
JLT1210
T
and used for phylogenetic analyses. The closest
neighbours were O. nanhaiensis SS011B1-20
T
(96.5 %
similarity), O. batsensis HTCC2597
T
(96.4 %) and O.
granulosus HT CC2516
T
(93.2 %).