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Morphology as a basis for taxonomy of large spirochetes symbiotic in wood-eating cockroaches and termites: Pillotina gen. nov., nom. rev.; Pillotina calotermitidis sp. nov., nom. rev.; Diplocalyx gen. nov., nom. rev.; Diplocalyx calotermitidis sp. nov., nom. rev.; Hollandina gen. nov., nom.[TRUNCATED].

International journal of systematic bacteriology ·Vol. 38 ·No. 3 ·1988-07-00 ·Pages 291-302

Bermudes D, Chase D, Margulis L

Abstract

The purposes of this paper are (i) to present a framework for the morphometric analysis of large uncultivable spirochetes that are symbiotic in wood-eating cockroaches and termites; (ii) to revive, in accordance with the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria, the names of three genera (Pillotina, Diplocalyx, and Hollandina) and three species (Pillotina calotermitidis, Diplocalyx calotermitidis, and Hollandina pterotermitidis) for the same organisms to which the names were originally applied, because these names were not included on the 1980 Approved Lists of Bacterial Names; and (iii) to formally propose the name Clevelandina reticulitermitidis for a new genus and species of spirochetes from the termite Reticulitermes tibialis. None of these genera and species has been cultivated either axenically or in mixed culture; hence, all are based on type-descriptive material.

Keywords
NASA Discipline Exobiology Non-NASA Center
MeSH Terms
Animals Cockroaches/microbiology Cytoplasm/ultrastructure Flagella/ultrastructure Intestines/microbiology Isoptera/microbiology Microscopy, Electron North America Spirochaetales/classification,cytology,ultrastructure Symbiosis Terminology as Topic
Authors & Affiliations
3 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Bermudes D
Department of Biology, Boston University, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Chase D
Margulis L
Investigators
1 investigators, click to expand
Margulis L
U MA, Amherst
Article Info
Journal
International journal of systematic bacteriology
Abbr.
Int J Syst Bacteriol
ISSN
0020-7713
Published
1988-07-00
Pages
291-302
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0042143
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