Concept information
Preferred term
Actinobacteria
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Actinomycetales
- Bifidobacterium
- Brevibacterium
- Cellulomonas
- Clavibacter
- Corynebacterium
- Dermatophilus
- Frankia
- Gardnerella
- Gordonia Bacterium
- Microbacterium
- Micrococcaceae
- Micromonosporaceae
- Mycobacteriaceae
- Nocardiaceae
- Nocardioides
- Nocardiopsis
- Propionibacteriaceae
- Pseudonocardia
- Saccharopolyspora
- Streptomycetaceae
- Thermobifida
- Thermomonospora
- Tropheryma
Entry terms
- Actinomycete
- Actinomycetes
- Gram-Positive Bacteria, High G+C
- High G+C Gram-Positive Bacteria
Scope note
- Class of BACTERIA with diverse morphological properties. Strains of Actinobacteria show greater than 80% 16S rDNA/rRNA sequence similarity among each other and also the presence of certain signature nucleotides. (Stackebrandt E. et al, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1997) 47:479-491)
History note
- 2003; for ACTINOMYCETES use ACTINOMYCETALES 1997-2002 & 1963-1966
In other languages
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Finnish
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Acinetobacteria
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aktinobakteeri
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Swedish
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Aktinomyceter
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D039903
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