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Genome-based analyses provided the primary evidence for species delineation. Pairwise average nucleotide identity (ANI) and digital DNA\u2013DNA hybridization (dDDH) comparisons among the eight strains and between the glacier-derived strains and their closest type-strain relatives supported their assignment to six novel species, with strains HZ1\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and HLT1-21 (ANI 99.1%, dDDH 92.2%) and strains MDB2-24\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    and MDT3-44 (ANI 98.5%, dDDH 87.9%) each representing a single genomic species. Consistently, a maximum-likelihood phylogenomic tree inferred from 81 concatenated bacterial core genes resolved 6 well-supported independent species-level lineages within the\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter agilis<\/jats:italic>\n                    group. The predominant cellular fatty acid of the representative strains was anteiso-C\n                    <jats:sub>15\u200a:\u200a0<\/jats:sub>\n                    (34.5\u201366.1%). In addition, genome-relatedness indices indicated that\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter vasquezii<\/jats:italic>\n                    Valenzuela-Ibaceta\n                    <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic>\n                    2023 is conspecific with\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter parietis<\/jats:italic>\n                    Heyrman\n                    <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic>\n                    2005 (ANI 98.8%, dDDH 90.1%) and should, therefore, be treated as a later heterotypic synonym of\n                    <jats:italic>A. parietis<\/jats:italic>\n                    Heyrman\n                    <jats:italic>et al.<\/jats:italic>\n                    2005 under the principle of priority. Based primarily on phylogenomics and genome relatedness, supplemented by phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characterization, the eight strains represent six novel species of the genus\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter<\/jats:italic>\n                    , for which the following names are proposed:\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter glycogeni<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. (HZ1\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    =CGMCC 1.9261\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    =JCM 38152\n                    <jats:sup>T<\/jats:sup>\n                    ),\n                    <jats:italic>Arthrobacter arabinosi<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. nov. 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