Name: Geminisphaera colitermitum TAV 2
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 131412

Type strain:

Species: Geminisphaera colitermitum

Strain Designation: TAV 2, TAV2

Culture col. no.: DSM 25453, ATCC BAA-2264

Strain history: <- J. Rodrigues, Univ. Texas; TAV2 <- J. T. Wertz, Michigan State Univ., USA. The genus name "Diplosphaera" Wertz et al. is a later homonym of the algal genus name Diplosphaera Bialosuknia, 1909

NCBI tax ID(s): 1148786 (species)

Section

Geminisphaera colitermitum TAV 2 is a mesophilic bacterium that was isolated from Retivulitermis flavipes .

mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Verrucomicrobiota*
	Class	*Opitutia*
	Order	*Opitutales*
	Family	*Opitutaceae*
	Genus	*Geminisphaera*
	Species	**Geminisphaera colitermitum**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Geminisphaera colitermitum Wertz et al. 2018

	Synonym	"Diplosphaera* colitermitum"*
	Synonym	"Didymococcus* colitermitum"*

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

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Incubation period

8-14 days

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

R2A MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 830)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #22639]			growth	25 °C

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Temperature range

mesophilic

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #22639]	Sample type/isolated from	Retivulitermis flavipes (termite hindgut)
[Ref.: #22639]	Host species	Retivulitermis flavipes
[Ref.: #22639]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Dansville, MI
[Ref.: #22639]	Country	USA
[Ref.: #22639]	Country ISO 3 Code	USA
[Ref.: #22639]	Continent	North America
* marker position based on {}

Isolation sources categories

#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence AY587232 (>99% sequence identity) for Geminisphaera colitermitum subclade from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	288
Soil Samples	231
Animal Samples	158
Plant Samples	15
Total Samples	692

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #22639]	Geminisphaera colitermitum TAV2 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY587232	1454	ENA	278957 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Geminisphaera colitermitum TAV2	GCA_000171235	contig	GenBank	278957 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Geminisphaera colitermitum TAV2	2517572100	draft	JGI IMG/M	278957 tax ID	*

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GC-content

60.51 mol%

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 25453, ATCC BAA-2264

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 25453

#66792

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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