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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.gbm01238

Abstract: 

Ther.mo.mo' nas. Gr. n. therme heat; monas a unit, monad; M.L. fem. n. Thermomonas a thermophilic monad.

Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Xanthomonadales / Xanthomonadaceae / Thermomonas

Gram-negative filamentous rods (1.0–12.5 × 0.5–0.75 µm). Motile by means of polar monotrichous flagellation or nonmotile. Aerobic. Endospores are not formed. Moderately thermophilic; temperature range for growth is 18–50°C, with an optimum between 37 and 50°C. Catalase and oxidase positive. Chemoorganotrophic. Carbohydrates are usually not utilized. Indole, Voges–Proskauer, methyl red, and Simmons citrate tests are negative. Urea is hydrolyzed. Nitrate is not reduced to nitrite or nitrogen; H₂S is not produced. Ubiquinone Q-8 is the major respiratory lipoquinone system. The main component in the cellular polyamine content is spermidine. Polar lipid fingerprints are characterized by the presence of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylglycerol. Cellular fatty acids are predominantly iso-branched with C_{15:0 iso} and C_{16:0 iso} as major components; other characteristic fatty acids are C_{11:0 iso}, C_{11:0 iso 3OH}, and C_{17:1 iso ω9c}. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence data, Thermomonas haemolytica currently forms a separate line of descent within the Xanthomonadaceae related to the genera Xanthomonas, Pseudoxanthomonas, Luteimonas, Stenotrophomonas , and Xylella .

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 67.1–68.7.

Type species: Thermomonas haemolytica Busse, Kämpfer, Moore, Nuutinen, Tsitko, Denner, Vauterin, Valens, Rosselló-Mora and Salkinoja-Salonen 2002, 480.

Harvard Citation style: Denner, E., Kämpfer, P. and Busse, H. (2015) Thermomonas, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01238

APA Citation style: Denner, E., Kämpfer, P., & Busse, H. (2015). Thermomonas. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01238