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irregular colony

METPO:1007065 · CLASS · SEEDED

A colony shape that has an irregular (non-round, non-rhizoid) outline.

Trait evidence (1)

  • DOI:10.7759/cureus.374
    Colony morphology is one among the various characters of bacteria, which is also unique to a particular genus of bacteria that could be instrumental in preliminary identification. Size (measured in millimetres - pinpoint (≤ 1 mm), small (2-3 mm), medium (4-5 mm), and large (> 5 mm) colonies), shape (circular, irregular, rhomboid, umbonate, umbonate, filamentous, or rhizoid)

    Kandi lists irregular as a bacterial colony shape value distinct from circular, filamentous, and rhizoid forms.

Provenance

Identifier source
METPO (2026-06-12)
Author
Marcin Joachimiak
Definition source
DOI:10.7759/cureus.374

Parent traits (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 irregular colony phenotype with DOI-backed evidence after a repository-wide duplicate review covering ignored and hidden files.