A novel Bacillus pumilus-related strain from tropical landfarm soil is capable of rapid dibenzothiophene degradation and biodesulfurization

Table 1 Taxonomic identification of nine DBT-consuming bacterial isolates through 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Isolates	Size (bp)¹	Access numbers²	Identity (%)³	Max score	Taxon
−3,-14B,-19, −31B,-33b, −43,-52	592-598	NR_074977	99	1092	Bacillus pumilus
−3,-14B,-19, −31B,-33b, −43,-52	592-598	NR_041794	99	1092	B. safensis
−25A	598	NR_027552	100	1105	B. subtilis
−33o	578	NR_040884	96	955	Paenibacillus illinoisensis

¹Length of PCR-amplified fragment that produced good quality sequences.
²Sequences deposited in the GenBank that gave the best alignment results from BLAST search.
³‘e-values’ were all equal to zero and query coverages were all 100%.

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