Name: Methylophilus quaylei Doronina et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: qu.ay’le.i N.L. gen. masc. n. quaylei, of Quayle, named after the prominent British biochemist J.R. Quayle who first discovered the RuMP cycle of formaldehyde assimilation

Gender: masculine

Type strains: DSM (accession number not given); JCM 31521; MT; VKM B-2338

See detailed strain information at

16S rRNA gene: AY772089 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Doronina N, Ivanova E, Trotsenko Y, Pshenichnikova A, Kalinina E, Shvets V. Methylophilus quaylei sp. nov., a new aerobic obligately methylotrophic bacterium. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:303-309.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 176. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:2075-2078.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Methylophilus Jenkins et al. 1987

Assigned by: Doronina N, Ivanova E, Trotsenko Y, Pshenichnikova A, Kalinina E, Shvets V. Methylophilus quaylei sp. nov., a new aerobic obligately methylotrophic bacterium. Syst Appl Microbiol 2005; 28:303-309.

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