Victivallales

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Victivallales

Buchanan, 1917
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Actinomycetales is an order of Actinobacteria. They are very diverse and contain a variety of subdivisions as well as yet unclassified isolates. This is mainly because some genera are very difficult to classify because of a highly niche-dependent phenotype. For example Nocardia contains several phenotypes that were first believed to be distinct species before it was proven that their differences were entirely dependent on their growth conditions.

Why is Classification difficult

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Actinomycetales are Gram positive, however several species have complex cell wall structures that makes the gram staining unsuitable. Examples: Mycobacteriaceae

References

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  • See the NCBI webpage on Actinomycetales Data extracted from the "NCBI Taxonomy Browser". National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 2011-06-05.
  • J.P. Euzéby. "Actinomycetales". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Retrieved 2011-06-11.
  • Labeda; et al. (2011). "Abstract of Reassessment of the systematics of the suborder Pseudonocardineae: transfer of the genera within the family Actinosynnemataceae Labeda and Kroppenstedt 2000 emend. Zhi et al. 2009 into an emended family Pseudonocardiaceae Embley et al. 1989 emend. Zhi et al. 2009". International Journal of Systematic Evolutionary Microbiology vol. 61. p. 1259-1264. Retrieved 2011-06-11. {{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)

Category:Actinobacteridae


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