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

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2015

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00070

Abstract: 

De.me'tri.a. Gr. n. Demeter Greek god of agriculture and wives; L. fem. suff. -ia suff. denoting belonging to; N.L. fem. Demetria a bacterium being responsible for fertility.

Actinobacteria / Actinobacteria / Micrococcales / Dermacoccaceae / Demetria

Cells are irregularly coccoid to rod-shaped, 0.8–1.2 × 0.8–3.0 µm. They occur singly, in pairs, short chains, or in small irregular clusters. Gram-stain-positive. Not acid fast. Nonsporeforming. Nonmotile. Aerobic to microaerobic. Colonies are circular, smooth, convex, white to pale yellow, and 1–3 mm in diameter. Optimum temperature for growth is 28°C; no growth occurs at 37°C. Oxidase negative, catalase positive. The peptidoglycan type is A4α with L-lysine as the characteristic diamino acid. The acyl type is acetyl. Galactose is the only whole-cell sugar. The only respiratory quinone is MK-8(H₄ ). The polar lipids are composed of phosphaditylinositol, phophaditylglycerol, diphophaditylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, and two unknown phospholipids. The cellular fatty acid profile is complex with large amounts of saturated and monounsaturated straight-chain acids and smaller amounts of iso- and anteiso-branched-chain acids. Mycolic acids are absent. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison, the genus Demetria is most closely related to members of the genera Dermacoccus and Kytococcus.

DNA G+C content (mol%): 66.

Type species: Demetria terragena Groth, Schumann, Rainey, Martin, Schuetze and Augsten 1997a, 1132^VP.

Harvard Citation style: Groth, I. and Kämpfer, P. (2015) Demetria, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00070

APA Citation style: Groth, I., & Kämpfer, P. (2015). Demetria. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00070