| Geodermatophilus |
| Morphology | Geodermatophilus obscurus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive |
| Morphology | Produce a muriform, tuber-shaped, noncapsulated, holocarpic multilocular thallus containing masses of cuboid cells 0.5- 2.0 um in diameter. The thallus, under favourable environmental conditions, breaks up, releasing cuboid and coccoid nonmotile cells. Some of these cells may develop into elliptical to lanceolate zoospores Mycelium rudimentary, aerial mycelium not produced |
| Motility | zoospores are propelled by a terminal tuft of long flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Geodermatophilus obscurus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Mesophilic. |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | Cell wall contains meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP), together with glutamic acid, alanine, glucosamine, and muramic acid. Whole-cell hydrolysates do not contain madurose. Phospholipids include phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol mannosides, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, and diphosphatidylglycerol. Fatty acids of the branched-chain type. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | soil |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Geodermatophilus obscurus |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Geodermatophilus obscurus |
| First citation | Ludemann, G.1968 Geodermatophilus, a new genus of the Dermatophilaceae (Actinomtycetales) J. Bacteriol 96: 1848-1858 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2406 G. M. Luedemann and A. F. Fonseca |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 652 |