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colony morphology

METPO:1007062 · CLASS · SEEDED

A phenotype characterized by macroscopic colony characteristics such as shape, margin, elevation, surface, colour, and size.

Trait evidence (2)

  • https://asm.org/asm/media/protocol-images/colony-morphology-protocol.pdf
    If well separated from other colonies, a colony will have a characteristic shape (both in elevation and margin), size, color, and consistency.

    Breakwell et al. describe shape, elevation, margin, size, color, and consistency as characteristic macroscopic features of a well-separated colony on solid medium.

  • https://asm.org/asm/media/protocol-images/colony-morphology-protocol.pdf
    Describe the form, elevation, and margin as indicated in Fig. 1. Also indicate whether the colonies are smooth (shiny glistening surface), rough (dull, bumpy, granular, or matte surface), or mucoid (slimy or gummy appearance).

    The peer-reviewed ASM protocol explicitly treats colony form, elevation, margin, and surface texture as morphology descriptors.

Provenance

Identifier source
METPO (2026-06-12)
Author
Marcin Joachimiak
Definition source
https://asm.org/asm/media/protocol-images/colony-morphology-protocol.pdf

Parent traits (1)

Children (1)

kg-microbe context

No kg-microbe node embedding matched this record in the 2026-04-25 deepwalk.

Curation history

  1. · SEEDED_FROM_METPO · seed_from_metpo

    imported from data/raw/metpo.owl (CLASS)

  2. · ENRICHED_FROM_LITERATURE · codex

    Enriched the seeded METPO colony morphology phenotype with stable ASM protocol evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.