Pasteuria
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera AND Spore forming bacteria
Compare Glycomyces, Kitasatosporia, Saccharothrix Pasteuria Endospore formers
Contrast Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends, Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera

Archaea
Other Spore Formers: Pasteuria Thermoactinomyces, Sporomusa, Sarcina Sporichthya polymorpha "Sporospirillum" Sporocytophaga myxococcoides

Subset  

 

Morphology Pasteuria
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology dichotomously branching, septate mycelium. terminal hyphae enlarge to form sporangia and eventually endospores.
Motility non motile
Specialized structures  
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface Vegetative colonies shaped like cauliflower florets or elongated grapes in clusters or small elongated clusters. daughter colonies are formed by fragmentation. The colonies are first observed in the host's musculature
Liquid colonization of the hemolymph is extensive

 

Growth Parameters Pasteuria
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism  
Oxygen  
pH  
Temperature forms endospores resists desiication
Requirements requires invertebrate host
Products  
Enzymes  
Unique features host is completely utilized by the bacteria. in the end the host is a bag of bactrial endospores
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat HAS not been cultivated axenically but can be grown in the laboratory with the invertebrate host
Lifestyle parasite
Pathogenicity parasite on plant-parasitic nematodes of the genera Pratylenchus and Meloidogyne
Distribution field soils and bottoms of ponds host range is restricted. Pasteuria ramosa is found in water fleas, Pasteuria penetrans sensu stricto is found in Meloidogyne incognita and Pasteuria thornei is found iin Ptraylenchus brachyurus

 

Genome Pasteuria
G+C Mol %  
   

 

Reference Pasteuria
First citation Metchnikoff,E. 1888 Pasteuria ramosa, un representant des bacteries a division longitudinale. Ann Inst. Pasteur. Paris 2: 165-170
Emended Sayre, R.M. and M.P.Starr. 1985. Pasteuria penetrans (ex thorne 1940) nom. rev., comb. n. sp. n., a mycelial and endospore forming bacterium parasitic in plant-parasitic nematodes. Proc. Helminthol. Soc. Wash 52: 149-165

Starr,M.P., and R.M.Sayre 1988 Pasteuria thornei, sp. nov and Pasteuria penetrans sensu stricto emend., mycelial and endospore-forming bacteria parasitic, respectively, on plant-parasitic nematodes of the genera Pratylenchus and Meloidogyne. Ann Inst Pasteur/Microbiol 139:11-31

Judicial Commission 1986 opinion 61 Rejection of the type strain of Pasteuria ramosa (ATCC273777) and conservation of the species Pasteuria ramosa Metchnikoff 1888 on the basis of the type descriptive material. IJSB 36:119
The Prokaryotes  
Bergey's Systematatic p 2601 Richard M. Sayre and Mortimer P. Starr
Bergey's Determinative not listed
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