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

Herausgeberliste: Whitman, WB

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2015

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00036

Abstract: 

Wil.li.am'si.a. N.L. fem. n. Williamsia named to honor Stanley Thomas Williams (1937–2004), a British microbiologist, for his numerous contributions to the taxonomy and ecology of actinomycetes.

Actinobacteria / Actinobacteria / Corynebacteriales / Nocardiaceae / Williamsia

Gram-stain-positive, non-sporing actinomycete which forms short rods. Aerobic and chemoheterotrophic. The diagnostic amino acid is meso-diaminopimelic acid and the major cell-wall sugars are arabinose, galactose, mannose, and ribose. Short chain mycolic acids are present (carbon chain length, C₅₀–C₅₆). The fatty acid pattern is mainly composed of straight-chain saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids. Tuberculostearic acid is present in large amounts (>20% of the whole-cell fatty acids). The major polar lipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, and diphosphatidylglycerol. Dihydrogenated menaquinone with nine isoprene units is the only isoprenologue. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, it is a member of the family Gordoniaceae.

DNA G+C content (mol%): 64–65 (HPLC).

Type species: Williamsia muralis Kämpfer, Andersson, Rainey, Kroppenstedt and Salkinoja-Salonen 1999, 686^VP.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Kämpfer, P. (2015) Williamsia, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00036

APA-Zitierstil: Kämpfer, P. (2015). Williamsia. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00036