@ARTICLE{Jiya2026-ma,
  title     = "Deinococcus pantiae sp. nov., a {UV-resistant} bacterium
               isolated from a lake in Schirmacher Oasis, Antarctica",
  author    = "Jiya, Namrata and Khudai, Wormirin and Gupta, Bhavuk and Sindhu,
               Dev Kant and Shrivastava, Vibhaw and Thite, Sonia and Karodi,
               Prachi and Vemuluri, Venkata Ramana and Sharma, Avinash",
  abstract  = "A novel UV-resistant, red-pigmented, Gram-stain-positive,
               aerobic, non-motile, coccoid bacterial strain, designated
               SM5\_A1T, was isolated from lake sediment collected from
               Schirmacher Oasis, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica. The phylogenetic
               analysis, based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence, showed that the
               strain SM5\_A1T was closely related to Deinococcus saxicola DSM
               15974T (98.39\%), Deinococcus frigens DSM 12807T (97.69\%) and
               Deinococcus marmoris DSM 12784T (97.06\%). The overall
               genome-related indices revealed D. marmoris DSM 12784T as the
               phylogenetically nearest relative with an average nucleotide
               identity of 89.69\%, an average amino acid identity of 92.14\%
               and a digital DNA-DNA hybridization of 38.3\%. The DNA G+C
               content of the isolate was 64.05 mol\%, while the predominant
               respiratory quinone was menaquinone 8 (MK-8). The major cellular
               fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16:1 $\omega$7c/C16:1
               $\omega$6c), C15:1 $\omega$6c, C16:0, summed feature 9 (C17:1
               iso $\omega$9c) and C15:0 iso. The prominently detected polar
               lipids were aminolipids, diphosphatidylglycerol,
               phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol,
               phosphoglycolipids and phosphatidylglyceroylalkylamine. Based on
               the phenotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data, the strain
               SM5\_A1T represents a novel species in the genus Deinococcus for
               which the name Deinococcus pantiae is proposed. The type strain
               is SM5\_A1T (MCC 5347T=JCM 36669T=KCTC 43670T).",
  journal   = "Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.",
  publisher = "Microbiology Society",
  volume    =  76,
  number    =  2,
  month     =  feb,
  year      =  2026,
  keywords  = "Deinococcus; UV-resistant; genome sequencing; polar
               microbiology; polyextremophile",
  language  = "en"
}