International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article Genomic Aromatic Compound Degradation Potential of Novel Paraburkholderia Species: Paraburkholderia domus sp. nov., Paraburkholderia haematera sp. nov. and Paraburkholderia nemoris sp. nov. Sarah Vanwijnsberghe 1 , Charlotte Peeters 1 , Emmelie De Ridder 1, Charles Dumolin 1 , Anneleen D. Wieme 1, Nico Boon 2 and Peter Vandamme 1,* 1 Laboratory of Microbiology, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Ghent University, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium;
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[email protected] Abstract: We performed a taxonomic and comparative genomics analysis of 67 novel Paraburkholderia isolates from forest soil. Phylogenetic analysis of the recA gene revealed that these isolates formed Citation: Vanwijnsberghe, S.; Peeters, a coherent lineage within the genus Paraburkholderia that also included Paraburkholderia aspalathi, C.; De Ridder, E.; Dumolin, C.; Paraburkholderia madseniana, Paraburkholderia sediminicola, Paraburkholderia caffeinilytica, Paraburkholde- Wieme, A.D.; Boon, N.; Vandamme, P. ria solitsugae and Paraburkholderia elongata and four unidentified soil isolates from earlier studies. Genomic Aromatic Compound A phylogenomic analysis, along with orthoANIu and digital DNA–DNA hybridization calcula- Degradation Potential of Novel tions revealed that they represented four different species including three novel species and P. Paraburkholderia Species: aspalathi. Functional genome annotation of the strains revealed several pathways for aromatic com- Paraburkholderia domus sp.