| Cytophagales |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding, Nonphotosynthetic, Nonfruiting Bacteria Cytophagales, |
| Compare | Cytophagales,Beggiatoales Single
Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
Chitinophaga
pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
Flexithrix dorotheae,
Lysobacter,
Microscilla,
Sporocytophaga
myxococcoides, Thermomena, |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Cytophagales |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | rods, often pleomorphic, |
| Motility | motile by gliding or nonmotile |
| Specialized structures | usually yellow, orange or red due to cell-bound pigments Morphologically differentiated resting cells in one genus only |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Cytophagales |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophs |
| Oxygen | aerobic, facultatively or obligately anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The respiratory quinones are exclusively menaquinones. The fatty acid pattern is dominated by branched- chain and 2- and 3-hydroxy acids |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Free-living bacteria in terrestrial and marine environments where they are very common and often occur in large numbers |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Some may colonize or invade animals or the human body and may become pathogenic under certain circumstances; a few seem restricted to such habitats. |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Cytophagales |
| G+C Mol % | 0-66 (Bd, Tm) |
| Reference | Cytophagales |
| First citation | Leadbetter, E.R.1974. Order II Cytophageles Nomen novum In Buchanan and Gibbons (Editors), Bergey's Manual od Determinative Bacteriology 8th Ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore p 99 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2011 H. Reichenbach |
| References |