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DICHELOBACTER NODOSUS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Dichelobacter |
| Species: | Dichelobacter nodosus |
| Description: | Large straight or slightly curved rods that are 1.0 to 1.7 μm in diameter and 3 to 6 μm long and have rounded ends. The cells often have terminal swellings, although this feature is less pronounced after repeated transfers. Gram negative, but there is a tendency to resist decolorization. Organisms stained with Loeffler methylene blue have prominent polychromic granules toward the poles and at intermediate sites within the cells. Cells have large numbers of pili (N-methylphenylalanine-type pilins) which vary in number according to changes in colony morphology. Cells exhibit twitching motility,and spreading of colonies occurs. |
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| Source: | isolated by J. R. Egerton from a sheep at Wollogorang Station, Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia |
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| Genbank: | JN175347.1(16s rRNA) [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
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| Reference: | DEWHIRST (F.E.), PASTER (B.J.), LA FONTAINE (S.) and ROOD (J.I.): Transfer of Kingella indologenes (Snell and Lapage 1976) to the genus Suttonella gen. nov. as Suttonella indologenes comb. nov.; transfer of Bacteroides nodosus (Beveridge 1941) to the genus Dichelobacter gen. nov. as Dichelobacter nodosus comb. nov.; and assignment of the genera Cardiobacterium, Dichelobacter, and Suttonella to Cardiobacteriaceae fam. nov. in the gamma division of Proteobacteria on the basis of 16S rRNA sequence comparisons. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1990, 40, 426-433. |
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