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The Family Sporichthyaceae

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The Prokaryotes

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Sporichthyaceae, a family within the order “Frankiales,” includes the genus Sporichthya. Members of this family are facultative anaerobes and have a cell wall containing a large amount of LL-diaminopimelic acid. Sporichthya aerial hyphae grow upright on the surface of the medium through holdfasts, which are outgrowths of the basal cell wall. No substrate mycelium forms.

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

    Tomohiko Tamura

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

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  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

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

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

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  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 Sporichthyaceae . 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_182

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