Fatty acid 1 2 3 4 5 6 i-C15:0 3OH 5.8 4.7 5.8 4.6 6.1 5.8 i-C17:1w9C 7.5 2.4 15.1 20.1 13.1 13.8 C16:0 3OH 5.9 6.9 4 3.6 2.8 1.5 i-C17:0 3OH 10.4 18.1 12.5 10.5 10.1 21.2 Summed Feature 3 11.7 16.8 9.5 6.7 1.9 1.3

Strains: (1) BSH-3T, (2) M. marinus JS-08T, (3) M. odoratimimus JCM7460T, (4) M. profoundi DSM19823T, (5) M. pelagicus KCTC12661T, (6) M. odoratus JCM7458T Data were obtained in this study are taken from Cho et al. [5] and are percentages of total fatty acids, ‘tr’ indicates trace amount less than 1.0% of the total. Prefix esi, OH and Cre presents iso-branched, hydroxyl fatty acids and cis isomer respectively

Table 1: Cellular fatty acid contents of strain BSH-3T (Myroides gitamensis) and closest related strains of genus Myroides.