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Herpetosiphon sp. (Hp g159)

Name: Herpetosiphon sp. (Hp g159)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 22184

Type strain

Strain Designation Hp g159

Culture col. no. Hp g159

NCBI tax ID(s) 71864

Special Collections Reichenbach collection

Hp g159 is a prokaryote that was isolated from rotting peel of cocoa bean with little soil.

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Hp g159

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:52:20

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	COLE AGAR		Ingredients: CaCl2 x 2 H2O 1.3g Agar (Difco) 15.0g Distilled water 1000.0ml Preparation / Remarks: pH 7.2 (KOH) autoclaved Pour the plates and streak living E.coli cells
18281	VY/2 AGAR		Ingredients: Baker's yeast 0.5% (based on fresh weight) CaCl2 0.1% Agar 1.5% Vitamin B12 0.05 % Preparation / Remarks: pH 7.2 autoclaved

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

@ref	Observation
18281	No ability for Yeast lysis
18281	Ability for E. coli lysis

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

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

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
18281	rotting peel of cocoa bean with little soil	1986-06-01	Malaysia	MYS	Asia

Interaction and safety

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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