Table 2.

Representative strains isolated from pink biofilms

Strain designation	Closest type strains	Accession No.a	% Sequence similarityb
Methylobacterium species
KMC10	Methylobacterium mesophilicum JCM2829T	AB629729	99.3
KMC4	Methylobacterium fujisawaense DSM5686T	AB629731	99.1
KMC5	Methylobacterium radiotolerans JCM2831T	AB629725	99.3
Other species
KMC13	Brevundimonas vesicularis IAM12105T	AB021414	99.8
KMC14	Chryseobacterium taiwanense BCRC17412T	EU336941	100
KMC15	Rhodococcus corynebacteroides DSM20151T	AD430066	99.6
KMC16	Chryseobacterium gregarium DSM19109T	AY230767	96.3
KMC17	Rhodococcus sp. DSM20151T	AF430066	99.4
KMC18	Rhodococcus qingshengii djl-6T	JF937542	99.8
KMC19	Roseomonas mucosa MDA5527T	AF538712	97.8
KMC20	Burkholderia cepacia ATCC25416T	AF097530	99.3
KMC21	Deinococcus grandis DSM3963T	Y11329	95.3
KMC22	Microbacterium arborescens DSM20754T	X77443	100
KMC23	Brevundimonas nasdae GTC1043T	AB071954	99.2

^aAccession numbers based on 16S rRNA gene partial gene sequences.

^bSequence similarity (16S rRNA gene, approximately 500 bp) was searched using Aporon DB-FU 2.0. (Technosuruga Lab., Shizuoka, Japan)