[nternationd Journal ofSystematic Bacterio/ogy (1999), 49,969-974 Printed in Great Britain Phylogenetic relationships of three amino-acid-utilizing anaerobes, Selenomonas acidaminovorans, 'Selenomonas acidaminophila ' and Eubacterium acidaminophilum, as inferred from partial 16s rDNA nucleotide sequences and proposal of Thermanaerovibrio acidaminovorans gen. nov., comb. nov. and Anaeromusa acidaminophila gen. nov., comb. nov. H. Sandra Baena,lr2 Marie-LaureFardeau,' T. S. WOO,^ Bernard Ollivier,l Marc Labat' and Bharat K. C. Pate13 Author for correspondence: Bharat K. C. Patel. Tel: +61 417 726 671. Fax: +61 7 3875 7656. e-mail :
[email protected] 1 Laboratoire ORSTOM de 16s rRNA gene sequences of three previously described amino-acid-fermenting Microbiologie des anaerobes, Selenomonas acidaminovorans, 'Selenomonas acidaminophila and AnaBrobies, Universite de Provence, CESB-ESILCase Eubacterium acidaminophilum, were determined. All three were found to 925,163 Avenue de cluster within the Clostridium and related genera of the subphylum of the Luminy, 13288 Marseille Gram-positive bacteria. The thermophile, S. acidaminovorans, formed ap Cedex 9, France individual line of descent and was equidistantly placed between 2 Departamento de Biologia, Dethiosulfovibriopeptidovorans and Anaerobaculum íhermoterrenum Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, PO6 56710, (similarity of 85%), both of which also form single lines of descent. '5. SantaFe de Bogota, acidaminophila ' was related to Clostridium quercicolum, a member of cluster Colombia IX, with a similarity of 90%, whereas E. acidaminophilum was closely related School of Biomolecular to Clostridium litorale (similarity of 96%) as a member of cluster XI. Based on and Biomedical Sciences, the phylogenetic data presented in this report and the phenotypic descriptions Faculty of Science, Griffith University, Brisbane, of these bacteria published previously, it is recommended that S.