| Cross Index | Microcystis |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Phototrophic Oxygenic Bacteria |
| Compare | Cyanobacteria
Prochlorales Procloron didemni, Prochlorothrix hollandica |
| Contrast | The photosynthetic or phototrophic bacteria can be broken into two major groups; the Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria that grow under anaerobic conditions and theOxygenic PhototrophicBacteria that use oxygen to carry out photosynthesis |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Microcystis |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | cells oval to spherical in diameter 3-8 um in diameter |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | original isolates are amorpous aggeagates of cells with gas vesicles, held together by an amorphous "mucilagenous" sheath |
| Division | binary fission is in 3 planes but the cells are irregularly oriented in aggregates |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Microcystis |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | phototroph |
| Oxygen | |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | produce and excrete the toxic peptides
microcystin and cyanoginosin Beta-cyclocitral is also released which as an odour associated with old algal bllooms on lakes (Juttner, Z. 1984 Naturforsch. C. 39: 867-871) |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The photosynthetic or phototrophic bacteria can be broken into two major groups; those that grow under anaerobic conditions and those that use oxygen to carry out photosynthesis |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | form algal-like blooms lakes and ponds |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Microcystis |
| G+C Mol % | 39.0-45.4 |
| Reference | Microcystis |
| First citation | Fahrenkrug et al 1992 IJSB 42: 182-184 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 384 |
| References | Codd and Poon 1988 in Biochemistry of Algae and cyanobacteria Rogers and Gallon Eds pp 283-296 re toxic peptides |