Cross Index | Gemmata obscuriglobus |
SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria , Budding and/or Appendaged Bacteria |
Compare | Prosthecate Bacteria: Ancalomicrobium adetum Asticcacaulis Caulobacter Dichotomicrobium thermohalophilum,
Filomicrobium fusiforme,
Hirschia baltica,
Hyphomicrobium Hyphomonas, Labrys monachus , Pedomicrobium, Prosthecobacter fusiformis,
Prosthecomicrobium,
Stella, Verrucomicrobium spinosum Non Prosthecate Bacteria Angulomicrobium tetraedrale Blastobacter Ensifer adherans,Gallionella ferrunginea Gemmiger formicilis, Nevskia ramosa, Seliberia stellata Planctomycetales Planctomyces, Gemmata obscuriglobus , Isosphaera pallida, Pirelulla |
Contrast | Archaea |
Subset |
Morphology | Gemmata obscuriglobus |
CELLULAR |
Staining | Gram Negative |
Morphology | unicellular coccoid to ovoid bacteria (1.4-3.0 x 1.4- 3.0 um) with a cell indentation |
Motility | polar tuft of flagella |
Specialized structures | do not produce stalks, crateriform structures are uniformely distributes on the cell surface, LACK PEPTIDOGLYCAN, do not produce rosettes, fimbriae |
Division | budding |
COLONIAL |
Solid surface | rose coloured colonies |
Liquid |
Growth Parameters | Gemmata obscuriglobus |
PHYSIOLOGICAL |
Tropism | |
Oxygen | aerobe ( Bergey's Determinative page 464) facultatively anearobic (Bergey's Determinative page 471) |
pH | |
Temperature | 16-35 C |
Requirements | use glucose but not fructose or pyruvate as carbon source |
Products | |
Enzymes | catalase positive, oxidase negative |
Unique features | resitant to penicillin |
ENVIRONMENTAL |
Habitat | The single strain of the one species was isolate from a single source, the littoral zoneof the Maroon Dam in Soth West Queensland Australia |
Lifestyle | |
Pathogenicity |
Distribution |
Genome | Gemmata obscuriglobus |
G+C Mol % | 64.4 +/- 1.0 Franzman and Skerman 1984 |
Reference | Gemmata obscuriglobus |
First citation | Franzmann, P. D. and V.B. D. Skerman. 1984. Gemmata obscuriglobus, a new genus and species of the budding bacteria. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. J. Microbiol. Serol. 50: 261-268 |
The Prokaryotes | p 3720-3724 |
Bergey's Systematatic | p 1950 not recognized as a separate genus in Bergey's Systematic |
Bergey's Determinative | p 464 |
References |