| Nocardioides |
| Morphology | Nocardioides |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive. Non-acid fast. |
| Morphology | Primary mycelium shows abundantly branching hyphae growing on the surface and penetrating into agar media; they break up into fragments that may be irregular or rodlike or coccoid. Aerial mycelium consisting of irregular, sparsely and irregularly branching, or unbranched hyphae that break up into short to elongated rodlike fragments. The fragments of both the primary and the aerial mycelium give rise to new mycelia.. |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies pasty |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Nocardioides |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Strictly aerobic Oxidative catabolism |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | Grows readily on standard media |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive |
| Unique features | Susceptible to specific phages. Diagnostic amino acids of the cell wall L-diaminopimelic acid (L-DAP) and glycine. Mycolic acids lacking. Diagnostic phospholipids phosphatidylglycerol and acylphosphatidylglycerol. Phosphatidylethanolamine and other nitrogenous phospholipids lacking. 14-Methylpentadecanoic acid predominating among fatty acids.Menaquinones primarily of MK-8(H4) type. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Worldwide in soil. |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Nocardioides |
| G+C Mol % | 66.1 to 72.7 (Tm) |
| Reference | Nocardioides |
| First citation | Prauser, H.,( 1976) Nocardioides, a new genus of the order Actinomycetales. IJSB 26:58-65 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1481 H. Prauser |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 631 |
| References |