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Deinobacterium

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Domain
  
Bacteria

Family
  
Deinococcaceae

Rank
  
Genus

Class
  
Deinococci

Phylum
  
Deinococcus-Thermus

Order
  
Deinococcus–Thermus

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Deinococcus–Thermus, Deinococcaceae

Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcus-Thermus group (Bacteria). Not to be confused with Deinobacter, a disused name for Deinococcus.

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Etymology

The name Deinobacterium derives from:
Greek adjective deinos (δεινός), dreadful, strange; New Latin neuter gender noun bacterium, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium; New Latin masculine gender noun Deinobacterium, strange bacterium.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely D. chartae ( Ekman et al. 2011, (Type species of the genus).; Latin genitive case noun chartae, of/from paper.) This bacterium is:

  • rod-shaped
  • non-spore-forming
  • non-motile, aerobic
  • oxidase and catalase-positive
  • radiation-resistant bacterium
  • pale pink colonies on oligotrophic medium at 12 to 50 °C (optimum 37 to 45 °C) and at pH 6 to 10.3
  • peptidoglycan type A3β with L-Orn–Gly–Gly
  • quinone: MK-8
  • CG 67%
  • isolated from biofilm collected from a Finnish paper mill

    • References

    Deinobacterium Wikipedia
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