Mongoliimonas Xi et al. 2017
General information
Name
Mongoliimonas
Valid publication
2017
Lineage
Root.
Bacteria.
Proteobacteria.
Alphaproteobacteria.
Rhizobiales.
Mongoliimonas
Nomenclature type
Mongoliimonas terrestris
Etymology
N.L. fem. n. <i>Mongolia</i> Mongolia; L. fem. n. <i>monas</i> monad, unit; N.L. fem. n. <i>Mongoliimonas</i> a monad from Mongolia, referring to the isolation of the bacterial strain from Mongolia Plateau, China.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Gram-stain-negative, non-motile, aerobic, non-spore-forming and diazotrophic. Catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Predominant fatty acids are C18:0 and summed feature 8 (C18:1 ω7c and/or C18:1 ω6c). The major polar lipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylmonomethylethanolamine and unidentified phospholipids. The sole respiratory quinone is Q-10. The DNA G+C content of the type species is 69.6 mol%.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M022502090006001 | Mongoliimonas terrestris | Species | 1709001 |
References
1
Xi, J., Wang, Y., Yang, X., Tao, Y., Shao, Y., and Feng, F. Mongoliimonas terrestris gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from desert soil. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2017 Aug;67(8):3010-3014.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002067]
[PMID:28820127]