| actinomadura keratinilytica sp. nov., a keratin-degrading actinobacterium isolated from bovine manure compost. | a novel keratinolytic actinobacterium, strain wcc-2265(t), was isolated from bovine hoof keratin 'baited' into composting bovine manure from southern alberta, canada, and subjected to phenotypic and genotypic characterization. strain wcc-2265(t) produced well-developed, non-fragmenting and extensively branched hyphae within substrates and aerial hyphae, from which spherical spores possessing spiny cell sheaths were produced in primarily flexuous or straight chains. the cell wall contained meso-d ... | 2009 | 19329615 |