Myxosarcina

Cross Index	Myxosarcina
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria , Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria
Compare	Cyanobacteria Chroococcales: Chamaesiphon, Cyanothece, Gloeobacter, Gleocapsa, Gloethece, Microcystis, Myxobaktron, Synechococcus, Synechocystis Pleurocapsales Chroococcidiopsis, Dermocarpa, Dermocarpella, Myxosarcina, Pleurocapsa, Xenococcus Oscillatoriales Arthrospira, Crinalium, Lyngbya, Microcoleus, Oscillatoria, Pseudoanabaena, Spirulina, Starria, Trichodesmium Nostocales Anabaena, Aphanizamenon, Cylindrospermum, Nodularia, Nostoc, Scytonema, Calothrix Stigonematales Chlorogloepsis, Fischerella, Geitleria, Stigonema Prochlorales Procloron didemni, Prochlorothrix hollandica
Contrast	Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Archaea
Subset

Reference	Myxosarcina
First citation	Printz, H.1921. Subaerial algae from Soth Africa. K. Nor. Vidensk Skr 1: 35-36.
Emended	Waterbury, J.B. and R.Y. Stanier. 1978. Patterns of growth and development in Pleurocapsalean cyanobacteria Microbiol Rev. 42:2-44
The Prokaryotes
Bergey's Systematatic	p 1758 J.B. Waterbury
Bergey's Determinative	p 389
References

Staining
Morphology
Motility
Specialized structures	Cyanobacteria that undergo repeated binary fission in three planes to form more or less cubical aggregates of cells. Multiple fission occurs simultaneously in most cells of the aggregate and is followed by the massive release of motile baeocytes. The baeocyte initiates growth by enlarging symmetrically into a spherical vegetative cell that, just prior to the onset of binary fission, attains a size that is characteristic and constant for any given strain.