A nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequence (1484 nt) of
strain ck-I2-15T was determined. Phylogenetic analysis of
the strain ck-I2-15T indicated that it belonged to the family
Flavobacteriaceae (Fig. 1). In the phylogenetic tree based on
the neighbour-joining algorithm, strain ck-I2-15T formed
a clade with Galbibacter mesophilus Mok-17T (92.9%
sequence similarity), ‘Joostella atrarenae’ M1-2 (92.8 %),
Joostella marina En5T (92.7 %) and Zhouia amylolytica
HN-171T (91.6 %). Lower sequence similarity values were
shown to all other members of the family Flavobacteriaceae
(,90.0 %).