| Micromonospora |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Actinoplanetes |
| Compare | Actinoplanes Ampullariella, Catellatospora, Dactylosporangium, Micromonospora Pilimelia |
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends , Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Micromonospora |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive. No acid fast |
| Morphology | Well-developed, branched, septate mycelium averaging 0.5 um in diameter. Nonmotile spores borne singly, sessile, or on short or long sporophores that often occur in branched clusters. Sporophore development monopodial or in some cases sympodial. Aerial mycelium absent or in some cultures appearing irregularly as a restricted white or grayish bloom |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Micromonospora |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Aerobic to microaerobic. |
| pH | Sensitive to pH below 6.0 |
| Temperature | normally between 20` and 40`C but not above 50`C. |
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| Unique features | Walls contain meso- diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) and/or its 3-hydroxy derivative and glycine. Xylose and arabinose present in cell hydrolysates. Characteristic phospholipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, and phosphatidylinositol mannosides. Major menaquinones MK- 9(H4), MK-10(H4), or MK-12(H6). |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Micromonospora |
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| Reference | Micromonospora |
| First citation | Orskov, J. 1923. Investigations into the Morphology of the Ray Fungi, Levin and Munksgaard, Copenhagen, Denmark. |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2442 I. Kawamoto |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 654 |
| References |