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The Family Cryptosporangiaceae

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Cryptosporangiaceae is a family within the order “Frankiales,” which includes the genera Cryptosporangium and Fodinicola. Members of this family are characterized by formation of aerial and substrate hyphae, meso-A2pm as a cell-wall diamino acid, iso-C16:0 as the major cellular fatty acid, phosphatidylethanolamine as a diagnostic polar lipid, and MK-9(H4), MK-9(H6), and MK-9(H8) as major isoprenoid quinones. However, regardless of the reliability of algorithms used to analyze 16S rRNA gene sequences for type strains of Cryptosporangium and Fodinicola, the position of the genus Fodinicola must be considered tentative. Members of this family are found in soil, on rocks, and in leaf litter.

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  1. Biological Resource Center (NBRC), National Institute of Technology and Evaluation (NITE), 2-5-8, Kazusakamatari, Kisarazu-shi, 292-0818, Chiba, Japan

    Tomohiko Tamura

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Stephen Lory

  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Tamura, T. (2014). The Family Cryptosporangiaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30138-4_181

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