Marinactinospora
Marinactinospora is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria).
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| Family: | Nocardiopsaceae |
| Genus: | Marinactinospora |
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| M. thermotolerans | |
Etymology
The name Marinactinospora derives from the Latin adjective marinus, of or belonging to the sea; Greek noun aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam; Greek noun spora (σπορά), a seed, and in biology a spore; New Latin feminine gender noun Marinactinospora, marine and spored ray, referring to marine spore-forming actinomycete.[1]
Species
The genus contains a single species, namely M. thermotolerans ( Tian et al. 2009, (Type species of the genus).; Greek noun thermē (θέρμη), heat; Latin participle adjective tolerans, tolerating; New Latin participle adjective thermotolerans, able to tolerate a high temperature.)[2]
See also
References
- Marinactinospora entry in LPSN; Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
- Tian, Xin-Peng; Tang, Shu-Kun; Dong, Jun-De; Zhang, Yu-Qin; Xu, Li-Hua; Zhang, Si; Li, Wen-Jun (2009). "Marinactinospora thermotolerans gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine actinomycete isolated from a sediment in the northern South China Sea". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (5): 948–952. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.005231-0.
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