Aminipila Ueki et al. 2018
General information
Name
Aminipila
Valid publication
2018
Lineage
Root.
Bacteria.
Firmicutes.
Clostridia.
Clostridiales.
Aminipila
Nomenclature type
Aminipila butyrica
Etymology
N.L. neut. n. <i>aminum</i> amine; L. fem. n. <i>pila</i> pillar; N.L. fem. n. <i>Aminipila</i> an amino acid-decomposing pillar.
Description and emendation
Original Description
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Strictly anaerobic, motile rods. Gram-stain-positive. Chemoorganotroph and fermentative. Does not utilize carbohydrates. Utilizes amino acids and produces volatile fatty acids. Oxidase and catalase activities are negative. Compounds even-numbered fatty acids or dimethylacetal are major components of cellular fatty acids. The cell wall peptidoglycan contains meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic amino acid. Does not have any respiratory quinones.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
---|---|---|---|
M021702010024001 | Aminipila butyrica | Species | 433296 |
References
1
Ueki, A., Goto, K., Kaku, N., Ueki, K. Aminipila butyrica gen. nov., sp. nov., a strictly anaerobic, arginine-decomposing bacterium isolated from a methanogenic reactor of cattle waste. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68(1):443-448.[DOI:10.1099/ijsem.0.002534]
[PMID:29235979]