| Spirillospora |
| Morphology | Spirillospora |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | Spherical to vermiform sporangia (5.0-24.0 um in diameter) are produced on the aerial mycelium. The sporangial envelope encloses numerous spores that are arranged in coiled and branched spore chains. The spores are rod shaped or curved (0.5-0.7 x 2.0-6.0 um). The hyphae of the substrate and aerial mycelium are 0.2-1.0 um thick, branched, and septate. The colour of substrate mycelium is white to pale yellow or pale buffy pink to red; the aerial mycelium is usually white. |
| Motility | Spores are motile by means of one to seven subpolarly inserted flagella |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Spirillospora |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | mesophilic range is 18-35`C |
| Requirements | |
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| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The peptidoglycan of the cell wall contains meso-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP), and madurose is the characteristic sugar of whole-cell hydrolysates. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Spirillospora |
| G+C Mol % | 71-73.0 (Tm,Bd) |
| Reference | Spirillospora |
| First citation | Couch,J.N. 1963. Some new genera and species of the Actinoplanaceae. J. Elisha Mitchell sci. Soc. 79: 53-70 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2543 Gernot Vobis and Hans-W Kothe |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 679 |
| References |