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The Family Kordiimonadaceae

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The Prokaryotes

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The genus Kordiimonas is the only genus within the order Kordiimonadales (Kwon et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 55:2033-2037, 2005), an order that contains a single family—the Kordiimonadaceae, a name we here formally propose. Currently (January 2013) the genus Kordiimonas contains four species: K. gwangyangensis, K. lacus, K. aestuarii, and K. aquimaris. Kordiimonas species form a monophyletic cluster, and can be distinguished from other groups within the Alphaproteobacteria by their chemotaxonomic features, especially by their cellular fatty acid composition. Branched fatty acids are seldom found in the Alphaproteobacteria, but high contents of iso- and anteiso-branched fatty acids were reported in Kordiimonas species. Kordiimonas is distributed globally, but has never yet been found as a dominant population. The natural habitats are mainly marine environments: seawater and marine sediments. Enrichment and isolation of Kordiimonas strains usually require low nutrient media and long incubation periods. No clinical reports of infections of humans or animals by Kordiimonas species have been published. K. gwangyangensis participates in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation as well as alkane oxidation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem and Biogeochemistry, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, 310012, People’s Republic of China

    Xue-Wei Xu

  2. Second Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, Hangzhou, 310012, People’s Republic of China

    Xue-Wei Xu

  3. College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310058, People’s Republic of China

    Min Wu

  4. Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel

    Aharon Oren

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Xu, XW., Wu, M., Oren, A. (2014). The Family Kordiimonadaceae. In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30197-1_261

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