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The Family Kofleriaceae

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The family Kofleriaceae belongs to the order Myxococcales, widely known as myxobacteria. The phylogenetic neighboring genus is Haliangium. Kofleria flava is the only recognized species in the genus, which is the only genus of the family. Within Kofleria 11 cultured strains, all aerobic and isolated from soil, dung, or bark, are known. Based on the metagenome analysis of a freshwater lake sediment, it is concluded that members of Kofleriaceae are relatively abundant among the myxobacteria within this habitat. They may be distinguished from Haliangiaceae by being halophobic, from Nannocystaceae by the form of the slender cells, and the yellow swarms which do not etch the agar. No fruiting bodies with mature myxospores have been detected yet. The cells are well equipped to cleave macromolecules such as starch, casein, or chitin but not cellulose. Kofleriaceae grow well on dead or living food cells (bacteria or yeast), a feature being utilized for their isolation and maintenance.

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  1. Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany

    Elke Lang

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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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Lang, E. (2014). The Family Kofleriaceae. In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39044-9_306

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