Acrocarpospora
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| Genus: | Acrocarpospora
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| A. pleiomorpha | |
Acrocarpospora is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria). The major respiratory quinone is menaquinone MK-9(H(4)) and use madurose, an actinomycete whole-cell sugar.[1]
Etymology
The name Acrocarpospora derives from:
Greek adjective akros, uttermost, topmost, highest, at the top, end; Greek noun karpos, fruit; Greek feminine gender noun spora, a seed, and in biology a spore; New Latin feminine gender noun Acrocarpospora, an organism forming spores like fruits on the terminal mycelium.[2]
Species
The genus contains 3 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]
- A. corrugata ( (Williams and Sharples 1976) Tamura et al. 2000, ; Latin feminine gender participle adjective corrugata, ridged (spores).)
- A. macrocephala ( Tamura et al. 2000, ; Greek adjective makrokephalos, long-headed; New Latin feminine gender noun macrocephala, large head.)
- A. pleiomorpha ( Tamura et al. 2000, (Type species of the genus).; Greek adjective pleios, full; Greek noun morphē, form, shape; New Latin feminine gender adjective pleiomorpha, pleiomorphic, in various shapes.)
See also
References
- ^ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/50/3/1163
- ^ a b Acrocarpospora in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.