| Cross Index | Gloeobacter |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria , Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Compare | Cyanobacteria
Prochlorales Procloron didemni, Prochlorothrix hollandica |
| Contrast | Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Gloeobacter |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | Unicellular cyanobacteria that possess oval to rod-shaped cells |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | Cells occur in irregular aggregates held together by multilayered sheath material. Intracellular photosynthetic thylakoids are lacking; the photosynthetic apparatus is associated with the cytoplasmic membrane. |
| Division | divide by transverse binary fission in a single plane |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Gloeobacter |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
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| Distribution |
| Genome | Gloeobacter |
| G+C Mol % | 64 (Tm) |
| from a single strain, PCC 7421. |
| Reference | Gloeobacter |
| First citation | Rippka,R.,J. Waterbury and G. Cohen-Bazire. 1974. A cyantobacterium which lacks thylakoids Arch Microbiol 100: 419-436 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p1731 J.B. Waterbury and R. Rippka |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 383 |
| References |