Cross Index | Prochlorothrix hollandica |
SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
Compare | Cyanobacteria
Prochlorales Procloron didemni, Prochlorothrix hollandica |
Contrast | Anoxygenic
Phototrophic Bacteria Archaea |
Subset |
Morphology | Prochlorothrix hollandica |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram-negative |
Morphology | |
Motility | |
Specialized structures | Unbranched trichomes of indefinite length. No cell differentiation |
Division |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Prochlorothrix hollandica |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | Oxygen evolving photoautotrophs with Oxygen evolving photoautotrophs with respiratory oxygen uptake in the dark |
Oxygen | |
pH | |
Temperature | |
Requirements | |
Products | Photosynthetic membranes lack phycobilisomes. Cells contain chlorophylls a and b. Phycobilin pigments absent. |
Enzymes | |
Unique features |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Prochlorothrix hollandica |
G+C Mol % |
Reference | Prochlorothrix hollandica |
First citation | Burger-Wiersma,T., M. Veenhuis, H.J. Korthals, C.C.M. van de Wiel and L. R. Mur. 1986. A new prokaryote containing chlorophylls a and b. Nature 320:262-264 |
The Prokaryotes | |
Bergey's Systematatic | p 1805 T. Burger-Wiersma and L.R. Muir |
Bergey's Determinative | p 415 |
References |