During investigations by of the arsenite-resistant bacteria
in deep-sea sediments on the South-west Indian Ocean
Ridge, many bacterial strains were isolated and taxonomically
characterized (Chen & Shao, 2009). This study
focused on one of these isolates, designated strain ck-I2-
15T, which was isolated from a sediment enrichment with
arsenite. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis
indicated that strain ck-I2-15T formed a clade with
Galbibacter mesophilus Mok-17T within the family
Flavobacteriaceae. Members of the family Flavobacteriaceae,
which was described by Reichenbach (1992)
and subsequently emended by Bernardet et al. (1996), are
present in high numbers in aquatic and terrestrial