Open AccessSporichthya brevicatena sp. nov.
Author(s) -
Tomohiko Tamura,
Masayuki Hayakawa,
Kazunori Hatano
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1466-5034
pISSN - 1466-5026
DOI - 10.1099/00207713-49-4-1779
Subject(s) - biology , mycelium , spore , strain (injury) , phylogenetic tree , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , dna , agar , diaminopimelic acid , bacteria , cell wall , peptidoglycan , gene , biochemistry , genetics , anatomy
A strain was isolated from soil that formed short chains of aerial mycelium dividing into motile spores on an agar medium, but not substrate mycelium. The organism had menaquinone 9(H8), LL-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall amino acids and a DNA G + C content of 71 mol%. On the basis of the morphological and chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, this strain was classified into the genus Sporichthya. DNA-DNA hybridization revealed that the strain differed from the known species, Sporichthya polymorpha. Therefore, a new species, Sporichthya brevicatena sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is S. brevicatena YU720-21T (= IFO 16195T).