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Herpetosiphon sp. (Hp g318)

Name: Herpetosiphon sp. (Hp g318)
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BacDive ID 21939

Type strain

Strain Designation Hp g318

Culture col. no. Hp g318

NCBI tax ID(s) 71864

Special Collections Reichenbach collection

Hp g318 is a prokaryote that was isolated from soil with fruits, rotting twiggs and other plant residues.

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Hp g318

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:16

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Chloroflexota

Class Chloroflexia

Order Herpetosiphonales

Family Herpetosiphonaceae

Genus Herpetosiphon

Full scientific name Herpetosiphon Holt and Lewin 1968 (Approved Lists 1980)

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
18281	TOLI AGAR		Ingredients: CaCl2 x 2 H2O1.3g Agar (Difco)15.0g Distilled water1000.0ml Preparation / Remarks: pH 7.2 (KOH) autoclaved Pour the plates and streak autoclaved E.coli cells
18281	Myx MEDIUM		Ingredients: Peptone (Difco) 1% Glucose 1% Yeast extract (Difco) 0.1% Phosphate buffer 0.01 M pH 6.5 Aerobacter aerogenes (sterilized with formalin) 500 mg/L (dry weight) as described by Kerr, N.S. (1963) The Growth of Myxamoebae of the True Slime Mould, Didymium nigripes, in Axenic Culture. J Gen Microbiol 32: 409-416.

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	-
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Fruit (Seed)
#Host Body-Site	#Plant	#Stem (Branch)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
18281	soil with fruits, rotting twiggs and other plant residues	1995-03-01	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	India	IND	Asia

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Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#18281	Reichenbach, H.: Collection description and documentation of myxobacteria by H. Reichenbach, HZI (formerly GBF); Collection curr. located at the DSMZ . Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH:
#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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