Cystobacter miniatus (DSM 14756, Cb mi3)

Name: Cystobacter miniatus (DSM 14756, Cb mi3)
Creator: BacDive
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BacDive ID 3320

Type strain

Strain Designation Cb mi3

Culture col. no. DSM 14756 Cb mi3

NCBI tax ID(s) 394093

Special Collections DSMZ Reichenbach collection

History <- H. Reichenbach; Cb mi3

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Cystobacter miniatus Cb mi3 is a bacterium that builds a fruiting body and was isolated from soil with decaying plant material.

Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 215442

DSM 14756

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:18:28

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Deltaproteobacteria

Order Myxococcales

Family Archangiaceae

Genus Cystobacter

Species Cystobacter miniatus

Full scientific name Cystobacter miniatus Reichenbach 2007

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Cystobacter miniatus** (2)	Type strain
3321	C. miniatus Cb a24, DSM 14712, CIP 109119, JCM 12626 (type strain)
21063	C. miniatus Cb mi4,

Morphology

Multicellular morphology

@ref	Forms multicellular complex	Complex name
18281		fruiting body

Multimedia

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caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
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multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
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multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
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multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
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multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9954_S8798.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9955_S8799.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9956_S8800.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9957_S8801.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9958_S8802.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9959_S8803.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

@ref:	5446
multimedia content:	Cb_mi3_M9960_S8804.jpg
multimedia.multimedia content:	/dsmz_profile/Pictures_DSMZ_Web/Cystobacter_miniatus/Cb_mi3
caption:	Cb mi3; DSM 14756
intellectual property rights:	Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH
manual_annotation:	1

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
5446	CY-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 67)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: CY-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 67) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Casitone 3.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 1.36 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Distilled water
5446	VY/2 AGAR (DSMZ Medium 9)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: VY/2 AGAR (DSMZ Medium 9) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l Baker's yeast 5.0 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 1.36 g/l Vitamin B12 0.0005 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
5446	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Soil
#Host	#Plants	#Decomposing plant

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
5446	soil with decaying plant material	Botswana	BWA	Africa

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
5446	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#5446	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 14756
#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 )
#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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