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Cystobacter armeniaca (Cb a18)

Name: Cystobacter armeniaca (Cb a18)
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BacDive ID 22505

Type strain

Strain Designation Cb a18

Culture col. no. Cb a18

NCBI tax ID(s) 394090

Special Collections Reichenbach collection

Cystobacter armeniaca Cb a18 is a bacterium that builds a fruiting body and was isolated from soil with plant residues and lime pebbles from garden.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

Cb a18

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:30:14

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Deltaproteobacteria

Order Myxococcales

Family Archangiaceae

Genus Cystobacter

Species Cystobacter armeniaca

Full scientific name Cystobacter armeniaca Reichenbach 2007

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Cystobacter armeniaca** (23)	Type strain
3300	C. armeniaca Cb a1, DSM 14710, CIP 109127, JCM 12622 (type strain)
3301	C. armeniaca Cb a3, DSM 14711
3302	C. armeniaca Cb a2, DSM 52616
3303	C. armeniaca Cb a4, DSM 52617
3304	C. armeniaca Cb a5, DSM 52618
3305	C. armeniaca Cb a6, DSM 52619
3306	C. armeniaca Cb a7, DSM 52620
3307	C. armeniaca Cb a8, DSM 52621
3308	C. armeniaca Cb a9, DSM 52622
3309	C. armeniaca Cb a11, DSM 52623
3310	C. armeniaca Cb a12, DSM 52624
3311	C. armeniaca Cb a13, DSM 52625
3312	C. armeniaca Cb a14, DSM 52626
3313	C. armeniaca Cb a15, DSM 52627
3314	C. armeniaca Cb a16, DSM 52628
3315	C. armeniaca Cb a17, DSM 52629
3316	C. armeniaca Cb a19, DSM 52630
3317	C. armeniaca Cb a22, DSM 52631
3318	C. armeniaca Cb a23, DSM 52632
3319	C. armeniaca Cb a25, DSM 52633
22463	C. armeniaca Cb a10,
22496	C. armeniaca Cb a20,
22517	C. armeniaca Cb a26,

Morphology

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Forms multicellular complex	Complex name
18281		fruiting body

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition
18281	AMP AGAR		Ingredients: Baker's yeast 0.5% (based on fresh weight) CaCl2 0.1% Agar 1.5% Cyanocobalamin 0.5 g/ml Ampicillin 0.05 mg/mL Preparation / Remarks: pH 7.2 autoclaved add Na-salt sterilized by filtration

Physiology and metabolism

Observation

18281

ObservationAbility for Yeast lysis

Antibiotic resistance

@ref	ChEBI	Group ID	Metabolite	Is resistant	Resistance conc.
18281	28971	0	ampicillin		50 µg/mL

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Agriculture	#Garden
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Sampling date	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
18281	soil with plant residues and lime pebbles from garden	1996-06-01	near St. Julians	Malta	MLT	Europe

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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