The 16S rRNA gene sequence of the novel strain (1351 bp) and the corresponding sequences of other strains were assessed with BLASTN (Altschul et al., 1990), imported into MEGA4 (http://www.megasoftware.net/; Kitamura et al., 2011) and aligned in CLUSTAL W (Thompson et al., 1994) Alignments were manually checked and the phylogenetic position of strain
17A1T established using a neighbour-joining tree generated in MEGA4