| Cross Index | Rhodomicrobium vannieli |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Compare | Purple Bacteria
Green Bacteria
Anaerobic chemotropic Erythrobacter longus, |
| Contrast | Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Rhodomicrobium vannieli |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Ovoid to elongate-ovoid bacteria showing polar growth and performing a characteristic vegetative growth cycle. This cycle includes the formation of peritrichously flagellated swarmer cells and nonmotile "mother cells" which form filaments from one to several times the length of the mother cell. Daughter cells originate as spherical buds at the end of the filaments and may undergo differentiation in various ways. |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | Cells have intracytoplasmic membranes of the lamellar type and contain bacteriochlorophyll and carotenoids as photosynthetic pigments. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Rhodomicrobium vannieli |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Cells grow preferably photoheterotrophically under anaerobic conditions in the light with various organic substrates as carbon and electron sources |
| Oxygen | molecular hydrogen and
sulfide at low concentrations may be used as
photosynthetic electron donor. Cells are able to grow under microaerobic to aerobic conditions in the dark |
| pH | pH values between 6 and 7 |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Rhodomicrobium vannieli |
| G+C Mol % | 61.8-63.8 (Bd |
| Reference | Rhodomicrobium vannieli |
| First citation | Duchow,A. and H.C.Douglas. 1949. Rhodomicrobium vanniellii, a new photoheterotrophic bacterium J. Bacteriol 58: 409-416 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1677 J. F. Imhoff and H. G. Truper |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 358 |
| References |