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Rhodococcus sp. (JCM 6821)

Name: Rhodococcus sp. (JCM 6821)
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BacDive ID 165422

Type strain

Culture col. no. JCM 6821

NCBI tax ID(s) 194249

Special Collections JCM

History H. Shimizu No. 01.

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JCM 6821 is a bacterium of the family Nocardiaceae.

16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 64891

JCM 6821

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:40:05

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Actinomycetota

Class Actinomycetes

Order Mycobacteriales

Family Nocardiaceae

Genus Rhodococcus

Full scientific name Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (4)

"Prescottia"
"Prescottella"
Prescottella
Rhodococcoides

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
67770	positive	growth	28

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AB429530 (>99% sequence identity) for Nocardiaceae from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	6494
Soil Samples	7777
Animal Samples	11681
Plant Samples	2835
Total Samples	28787

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
67770	Rhodococcus erythropolis gene for 16S rRNA, partial sequence, strain: JCM 6821	AB429530	1440		1833

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
67770	61.3	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#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 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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