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Proposal to Recognize the Family Aeromonadaceae Fam. Nov. R INTERNATIONALJOURNAL OF SYSTEMATICBACTERIOLOGY, July 1986, p. 473-477 Vol. 36, No. 3 0020-77 13/86/030473-05$02.00/0 Copyright 0 1986, International Union of Microbiological Societies Proposal to Recognize the Family Aeromonadaceae fam. nov. R. R. COLWELL,l* M. T. MACDONELL,'? AND J. DE LEY2 Department of Microbiology, The University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742l and Laboratorium voor Microbiologie en Microbiele Genetica, Faculteit der Wetenschappen, Rijksuniversiteit, B-9000 Gent, Belgium2 The genus Aeromonas is currently allocated, primarily on the basis of phenotypic expression, to the eubacterial family Vibrionaceae. However, a sizeable collection of molecular genetic evidence, including 16s ribosomal ribonucleic acid catalog, 5s ribosomal ribonucleic acid sequence, and ribosomal ribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization data, indicates that Aeromonas spp. possess an evolutionary history sufficiently different from that of the Vibrionaceae to warrant removal from this family. The phylogenetic locus (i.e., intermediate between the families Enferobacferiuceae and Vibrionaceae) and phylogenetic depth of the genus Aeromonas suggest that Aeromonas spp. represent a discrete family of eubacteria, for which the name Aeromonadaceae fam. nov. is proposed. Kluyver and van Niel(10) proposed the genus Aeromonas Substantial molecular genetic evidence now exists which to accommodate enteric bacterium-like microorganisms suggests that species currently assigned to the genus Aero- which were associated with freshwater aquatic environ- monas (e.g., A. hydrophila, A. salmonicida, A. sobria, A. ments and were motile by means of polar flagella (14). The caviae, and A. media) possess a phylogenetic history suffi- partitioning of this group of bacteria was intended to portray ciently distinct from the histories of the families Enterobac- phylogenetic relationships. The identification of species teriaceae and Vibrionaceae to warrant exclusion of the comprising the genus Aeromonas has varied significantly genus Aeromonas from the Vibrionaceae (Table 1) and since the creation of the genus in 1936. As a consequence, elevation to the level of family. Support for such a change in the taxonomic history of the genus Aeromonas has been one the taxonomy of Aeromonas can be found in the results of of confusion and controversy (7, 8, 13-22), involving not deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-ribosomal ribonucleic acid only definition of the species assigned to the genus but also (rRNA) competition studies (2); such data for species of the the taxonomic locus of the genus with respect to the families genera Vibrio (Beneckea) and Aeromonas and the family Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrionaceae as they are presently Enterobacteriaceae support our conclusion that Vibrio spp., defined (2,lO). A major problem faced in defining the precise Aeromonas spp. and enteric species share the relationships taxonomic position of Aeromonas hydrophila and related shown in Fig. 1, which is based on rRNA-DNA hybridiza- TABLE 1. Family Vibrionaceae" ~ Genus Species composition Reference(s) Vibrio V. alginolyticus, V. campbellii, V. carchariae, V. cholerae, V. costicola, V. diazotrophicus, 3, 13 V.fluvialis, V.furnessii, V. gazogenes, V. harveyi, V. rnetschnikovii, V. natriegens, V. nereis, V. nigrapulchritudo, V.parahaemolyticus, V. orientalis, V. proteolyticus, V. splendidus, V. vulnificus Photobacterium P. angusturn, P. fischeri, P. leiognathi, P. logei, P. phosphoreurn 13 Listonella L. anguillarum, L. damsela, L. pelagica 13 Shewanella S. benthica, S. hanedai, S. putrifaciens 13 Plesiomonasb P. shigelloides Aeromonasc A. caviae, A. hydrophila, A. media, A. salmonicida, A. sobria 3, 13 a The following is a general description of the family Vibrionaceae: gram-negative straight or curved rods; motile by polar flagella; do not form endospores or microcysts; chemoorganotropic and facultatively anaerobic; capable of respiratory and fermentative metabolism; oxygen is a universal electron acceptor; do not denitrify; most are oxidase positive; all utilize D-glucose as a sole source of carbon and energy; most require 2 to 3% NaCl or seawater for optimum growth; primarily associated with aquatic habitats; several species are pathogenic to humans, fish, eels, and frogs; DNA base composition, 38 to 63 mol% guanine plus cytosine. Removal from the family Vibrionaceae has been recommended (13). We recommend elevation to the family level. species sharing a similar evolutionary history is that these tion data (2). Figure 1 shows that the genus Aeromonas can species possess phenotypic properties defined, a priori, to be be considered to be more closely related to enteric species characteristic of each of two distinct eubacterial families, the than to the Vibrionaceae. Essentially the same intergeneric Vibrionaceae and the Enterobacteriaceae. pattern observed for DNA-rRNA competition experiments was obtained by using the results of 16s rRNA cataloging (23) (Fig. 2A), as well as through a comparative analysis of * Corresponding author. 5s rRNA sequences (11-13) (Fig. 2B). In fact, the primary t Present address: Center of Marine Biotechnology, The Univer- structure of 5s rRNAs prepared from Aeromonas spp. is sity of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. sufficiently different from the structure of 5s rRNAs from 473 474 NOTES INT. J. SYST. BACTERIOL. 60 70 ao 90 100 Photobacterium sm. 1Vibrio sp~. Pasteurella wltocida Aeromonas spp. Interobacteriaceae . 60 70 80 90 100 % rRNA-DNA BINDING FIG. 1. Dendrogram showing relationships among species of the families Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrionaceae and the genus Aeromonas. The relationships shown are based on DNA-rRNA competition data (2). species of the families Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrionaceae Furthermore, studies in which comparisons were made that minor differences in secondary structures are implied among the immunologic distances of glutamine synthetases (11). Secondary structure differences alone corroborate sig- and superoxide dismutases for species of the genera Vibrio, nificant separation in the evolutionary histories of Aeromo- Aeromonas, and Photobacterium and species of the Entero- nus spp. and both the Vibrionaceae and the Enterobacteri- bacteriaceae indicated that Aeromonas spp. are approxi- aceae. The determination of rRNA cistron similarities mately equidistant from both Vibrio and enteric species (1). among numerous named strains and type strains by DNA- On a basis of the information described above, we suggest rRNA hybridization revealed the existence of at least five that sufficient evidence exists to justify the conclusion that large rRNA superfamilies sensu De Ley (4) among the the species of the genus Aeromonas represent a phylogeneti- gram-negative bacteria (4-6, 25). Figure 3 shows the relat- cally distinct family of eubacteria. Therefore, we propose edness of the main large groups in superfamily I. All strains creation of the family Aeromonadaceae for these and similar of Aeromonas constitute a branch which is approximately species, including new species to be described elsewhere equidistant from the Enterobacteriaceae and the Vibrio- (J. D. Deming, M. T. MacDonell, W. S. Straube, and R. R. naceae. These data demonstrate that the present genus Colwell, manuscript in preparation). Aeromonas deserves to be elevated to family level. Description of Aeromonadaceae fam. nov. Aeromona- Results of DNA-DNA hybridization among strains of the duceae (Ae .ro .mo .na. da’ce.ae. M. L. fem. n. Aeromonas genera Aeromonas and Vibrio (24) indicate a very low level type genus of family; suffix -aceae to denote family; M.L. of relatedness between Aeromonas and Vibrio species, be- fem. pl. n. Aeromonadaceae Aeromonas family). Gram- tween which the average relative binding ratio is no greater negative straight or curved rods. Motile by means of polar than that observed between such distantly related strains as flagella. Do not form endospores or microcysts. Chemo- Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio spp. (i.e., <lo%). organotrophs and facultative anaerobes capable of respira- FIG. 2. Evolutionary trees indicating relationships among species of the families Enterobacteriaceae and Vibrionaceae and the genus Aeromonas, based on rRNA homologies. (A) Phylogenetic relationships among procaryotic taxa based on 16s rRNA catalogs. Adapted from reference 23. Note the relationships among the enteric bacteria, vibrios, and aeromonads, suggesting that Aeromonas spp. share a more recent common ancestor with species of the Enterobacteriaceae than with species of the Vibrionaceae. Abbreviations: Aq., Aquaspirillum; P., Pseudomonas; R., Rhodospirillum; X., Xanthomonas; S-dep, sulfur-dependent group. (B) Evolutionary tree depicting phylogenetic relationships among the enteric bacteria, vibrios, photobacteria, and aeromonads, based on 5s rRNA sequence analyses. The tree was derived from evolutionary distance coefficients (9) by using the difference matrix clustering program KITSCH (PHYLIP phylogeny inference package; J. Felsenstein, University of Washington). For a detailed discussion of the taxonomy of the family Vibrionaceae as indicated by comparative sequence analysis of 5s rRNAs, see reference 13. Abbreviations: A., Aeromonas (except A. aerogenes, Aerobacter aerogenes); E., Escherichia; P., Photobacterium (except P. mirabilis, Proteus mirabilis; and P. shigelloides, Plesiomonas shigelloides); S. marcescens, Serratia marcescens; S. typhimurium, Salmonella typhimurium; V., Vibrio; Y ., Yersinia. Note that Listonella species appear as Vibrio. VOL. 36,
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