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

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2016

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00057.pub2

Abstract: 

Mi.ni.i.mo'nas. L. adj. minius cinnabar-red, vermilion; L. fem. n. monas a unit, monad; N.L. fem. n. Miniimonas vermilion monad, referring to the cell mass color.

Actinobacteria / Actinobacteria / Micrococcales / Beutenbergiaceae / Miniimonas

Cells are irregular rods (0.6 × 3.1 µm) and cocci (1.0–1.7 µm). Gram-stain-positive, not acid-fast. Endospores are not formed. Nonmotile. Facultatively anaerobic. Good growth on complex organic media at 28–30°C. NaCl in the culture medium may be tolerated up to 5%. Oxidase-negative, catalase-positive. The peptidoglycan type is A4β based on l-ornithine. The acyl type is acetyl. Whole cell sugars are glucose, xylose, and ribose. The predominant menaquinone is MK-8(H₄ ). The polar lipids consist of phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylinositol, and one unknown phospholipid. The cellular fatty acid profile is dominated by the occurrence of iso- and anteiso-branched-chain acids. Mycolic acids are absent. Based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence phylogeny, the genus is placed into the monophyletic cluster of the family Beutenbergiaceae related to the other genera of the family with 96.3–97.3% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to respective species.

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P. and Glaeser, S. (2016) Miniimonas, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00057.pub2

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P., & Glaeser, S. (2016). Miniimonas. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00057.pub2