Table 1 Closest cultured strains of bacteria based on 16S rRNA Gene libraries from the sludge sample

Flavobacteria

Uncul. Bacteroidetes bacterium AH.KK.

54.4

(98.4)

GQ979644

54.4

Sphingobacteria

Uncul. Bacteroidetes bacterium; AL07-21

12.2

(90.3)

FJ843776

11.1

Gracilimonas tropica

1.1

(96.2)

EF988655

Gammaproteobacteria

Marinobacter gudaonensis

27.5

(97.7)

DQ414419

5.6

Uncultured Gammaproteobacterium clone bac463

4.4

(98.3)

JF727683

Idiomarina loihiensis

4.4

(99.9)

AF288370

Marinobacter pelagius

3.3

(97.4)

DQ458821

Uncultured bacterium; Napoli-MN16BT2-230

2.2

(98.6)

AY593468

Marinobacter lipolyticus

1.1

(99.6)

AY147906

Chromohalobacter sp. H24.1

1.1

(100)

AJ717726

Hydrocarboniphaga effusa

1.1

(94.8)

AY363245

Halomonas ventosae

1.1

(99.9)

AY268080

Marinobacter guineae

1.1

(98.5)

AM503093

Chromohalobacter salexigens; SM5

1.1

(97)

HQ641752

Betaproteobacteria

Uncultured Alcaligenes sp.; Y251

1.1

(99.3)

EU328096

1.1

Alphaproteobacteria

Thalassospira lucentensis; TVGB18

4.4

(99.5)

GQ169074

2.2

Parvibaculum lavamentivorans

1.1

(97)

AY387398

Uncultured Parvibaculum sp.; HB83

1.1

(97.5)

EF648080

Clostridia

Halanaerobium acetethylicum

1.1

(99.8)

X89071

1.1