| Cross Index | Thiospirillum jenense |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Compare | Purple Bacteria
Green Bacteria
Anaerobic chemotropic Erythrobacter longus, |
| Contrast | Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Thiospirillum jenense |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative. |
| Morphology | Cells curved or rod-shaped or spiral (sigmoid), may grow in irregular aggregates surrounded by slime. |
| Motility | motile by means of (multitrichous) polar flagella. Under certain conditions, cells may be nonmotile |
| Specialized structures | Contain internal
photosynthetic membrane systems of vesicular type in
which the photosynthetic pigments are located. Do not
contain gas vacuoles. elemental sulfur is transiently stored inside the cells Storage materials are polysaccharides, poly-B- hydroxybutyrate and polyphosphate |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Thiospirillum jenense |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Obligately photo-trophic,. Capable of photolithoauto-trophic growth with sulfide or sulfur as electron donor |
| Oxygen | strictly anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | Sulfate is the ultimate oxidation product |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | .. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Thiospirillum jenense |
| G+C Mol % | 45.5 (Bd |
| Reference | Thiospirillum jenense |
| First citation | Winogradsky, S. 1888. Uber
Eisenbakterien. Bot Z 42: 261-270 Winogradsky, S. 1888. Beitrage zur Morphologie und Physiologie der bacterien. Heft 1. Zur Morphologie unde Physiologie der Schwefelbakterien. Arthur Felix, Leipzig pp 1-120 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1644 Norbert Pfennig |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 357 |
| References |