Biology:Phycicoccus

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Phycicoccus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Intrasporangiaceae
Genus: Phycicoccus
Lee 2006[1]
Type species
Phycicoccus jejuensis
Lee 2006
Species[2]
  • P. avicenniae Chen et al. 2022
  • P. duodecadis (Lochhead 1958) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • P. elongatus (Hanada et al. 2002) Nouioui et al. 2018
  • P. endophyticus Liu et al. 2016
  • P. flavus Chen et al. 2021
  • P. ginsengisoli Kang et al. 2016
  • P. jejuensis Lee 2006
  • "P. mangrovi" Chen et al. 2021
  • "P. ochangensis" Kim et al. 2012

Phycicoccus is a genus of Gram positive, aerobic, non-endosporeforming bacteria. Species in this genus are mesophilic and have cells that are short rods or coccoid.[3]

The genus was first proposed in 2006. The type species P. jejuensis was first isolated from dried seaweed from a beach in South Korea . The genus name is derived from Latin phycos (seaweed) and coccus, referring to the source of the original isolate and the shape of the cells.[1] Other members of this genus have been initially isolated from air, soil, bark, and scoria.[3]

Species from this genus produce yellow, white, or cream-colored colonies on R2A agar. All species are mesophilic; most species cannot grow at temperatures above 35-37 °C. P. jejuensis is the only psychrotrophs.[4]

In 2018, several species were transferred to the genus Pedococcus.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Lee, S. D. (1 October 2006). "Phycicoccus jejuensis gen. nov., sp. nov., an actinomycete isolated from seaweed". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 56 (10): 2369–2373. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64271-0. PMID 17012564. 
  2. "Phycicoccus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/phycicoccus. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Liu, Shao-Wei; Xu, Min; Tuo, Li; Li, Xiao-Jun; Hu, Lin; Chen, Li; Li, Rong-Feng; Sun, Cheng-Hang (1 March 2016). "Phycicoccus endophyticus sp. nov., an endophytic actinobacterium isolated from Bruguiera gymnorhiza". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 66 (3): 1105–1111. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000842. PMID 26653143. 
  4. Kang, Jong-Pyo; Kim, Yeon-Ju; Nguyen, Ngoc-Lan; Hoang, Van-An; Farh, Mohamed El-Agamy; Joo, Sung-Chul; Quan, Lin-Hu; Yang, Deok-Chun (1 December 2016). "Phycicoccus ginsengisoli sp. nov., isolated from cultivated ginseng soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 66 (12): 5320–5327. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001515. PMID 27666743. 
  5. "Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria". Front. Microbiol. 9: 2007. 2018. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007. PMID 30186281. 

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