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Appeared in: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2017

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00115.pub2

Abstract: 

Sub.ter'co.la. L. prep. subter below, underneath; L. masc. suff. -cola inhabitant; N.L. masc. n. subtercola the one who lives underneath.

Actinobacteria / Actinobacteria / Micrococcales / Microbacteriaceae / Subtercola

The genus Subtercola is phylogenetically placed within the radiation of the actinomycete genera with group-B-peptidoglycan that comprises the family Microbacteriaceae. The genus is closely related to the genus Agreia. Cells form short irregular rods, are Gram-stain-positive, nonencapsulated, nonmotile, and nonsporeforming. Aerobic. The colonies are circular, convex, smooth, and pale to bright yellow, depending on the medium. Growth occurs best at 15–17°C, but is also observed in the temperature range 2–28°C. The cell-wall diamino acid is diamino butyric acid (DAB). The main cell-wall amino acids are alanine, glycine, threo-3-hydroxy-glutamic acid, and DAB. The peptidoglycan type is B2γ. The polar lipids are phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, one unknown phospholipid, and two glycolipids. The main cellular fatty acids are 12-methyltetradecanoic acid (C_15:0 anteiso), 14-methylpentadecanoic acid (C_16:0 iso), and 14-methylhexadecanoic acid (C_17:0 anteiso). The whole-cell methanolysates of Subtercola species contain 1,1-dimethoxy-anteiso-pentadecane (C_15:0 anteiso DMA) and 1,1-dimethoxy-iso-hexadecane (C_16:0 iso DMA) as major components in amounts comparable to those of fatty acids. No mycolic acids are present. The major isoprenoic quinones are MK-9 and MK-10. The genomic DNA G+C content is 64–68 mol%.

DNA G + C content (mol%): 64–68.

Type species: Subtercola boreus Männistö, Schumann, Rainey, Kämpfer, Tsitko, Tiirola and Salkinoja-Salonen 2000, 1737^VP.

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P. and Glaeser, S. (2017) Subtercola, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00115.pub2

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P., & Glaeser, S. (2017). Subtercola. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00115.pub2