Nocardiopsis
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends
Compare Actinosynnema Nocardiopsis, Streptoalloteichus, Thermomonospora
Contrast Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends, Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera

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Morphology Nocardiopsis
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-positive not acid fast
Morphology Substrate mycelium well developed, hyphae long and densely branched, 0.5-0.8 um in diameter; fragmentation into coccoid and bacillary elements may occur. Aerial mycelium usually well developed and abundant, hyphae long and moderately branched, straight, flexuous, or irregularly zig-zagged, completely fragmenting into spores of various lengths. Spores oval to elongated, spore surface smooth. When aerial mycelium is lacking, surface of colonies coarsely wrinkled or folded; otherwise covered by a woolly or farinaceous aerial mycelium
Motility  
Specialized structures  
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Nocardiopsis
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen aerobic
pH  
Temperature Temperature range from 10` to 45`C.
Requirements  
Products  
Enzymes  
Unique features The cell wall contains meso-2,6-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP) with no diagnostic sugars. Mycoloic acids absent. Menaquinones are predominantly of the MK-10(H2,H4,H6) or of the MK-9(H4,H6) type.
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Found in soil, milkweed grain, and clinical material of animal and human origin
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Nocardiopsis
G+C Mol % 64-69 (Tm)
   

 

Reference Nocardiopsis
First citation Mayer, J. 1976. Nocardiopsis, a new genus of the order Actinomycetales. IJSB 26: 487-493
The Prokaryotes  
Bergey's Systematatic p 2562 Jutta Meyer
Bergey's Determinative p 693
References