Clostridium sp. (DSM 15728, ZAQ-1, ZAQ-1A)

Name: Clostridium sp. (DSM 15728, ZAQ-1, ZAQ-1A)
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BacDive ID 22964

Type strain

Strain Designation ZAQ-1, ZAQ-1A

Culture col. no. DSM 15728 ZAQ-1 ZAQ-1A

NCBI tax ID(s) 1506

Special Collections DSMZ

History <- J. R. Leadbetter, Caltech, California Inst. Technology, Pasadena, USA; ZAQ-1 <- A. Vu

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ZAQ-1 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from hindgut of termite Zootermopsis angusticollis.

anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 398737

DSM 15728

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:23:37

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacillota

Class Clostridia

Order Eubacteriales

Family Clostridiaceae

Genus Clostridium

Full scientific name Clostridium Prazmowski 1880 (Approved Lists 1980)

Synonyms (8)

Thomasclavelia
"Erysipelatoclostridium"
"Pseudoclostridium"
"Andreesenella"
"Tyzzerella"
"Lachnoclostridium"
Anaerobacter
"Inflabilis"

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
18804	PY + X MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PY + X MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 104b) Composition: Yeast extract 10.0 g/l D-Glucose 5.0 g/l Trypticase peptone 5.0 g/l Meat peptone 5.0 g/l L-Cysteine HCl x H2O 0.5 g/l NaHCO3 0.4 g/l NaCl 0.08 g/l KH2PO4 0.04 g/l K2HPO4 0.04 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.02 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.01 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
18804	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

18804

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body-Site	#Gastrointestinal tract	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
18804	hindgut of termite Zootermopsis angusticollis	Zootermopsis angusticollis	Chilao, National Forest	USA	USA	North America

Interaction and safety

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#18804	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 15728
#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 )
#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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