| Cross Index | Beggiatoales |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding, Nonphotosynthetic, Nonfruiting Bacteria |
| Compare | Cytophagales, Beggiatoales Single
Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
Chitinophaga
pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
Flexithrix dorotheae,
Lysobacter,
Microscilla,
Sporocytophaga
myxococcoides, Thermomena, |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Beggiatoales |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Cells of widely varying sizes occur mostly in filaments. Filaments usually demonstrate flexing or bending and usually can be considered as distinct multicellular units |
| Motility | When in contact with a substrate, the motile organisms glide over the surface in a slow wavy type of motion. No flagella or other motility organelles are proven. Gliding motility is usually in a direction parallel with the length of the filaments. |
| Specialized structures | Colourless; chlorophyll, phycobiliproteins, and carotenoid pigments are not produced. Multiplication is by transverse binary fission of both singly occurring cells and cells throughout the length of filaments. Cells within filaments may be visible or not visible. Filament dispersion may be via disintegration or sacrificial cell death. Sheaths and holdfasts may be formed. Resting cell forms not known. Sulfur is deposited in the presence of hydrogen sulfide. Poly-B-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) and polyphosphate (volutin) often occur |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Beggiatoales |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic and chemolithotrophic nutrition known; mixotrophic nutrition postulated for several organisms. |
| Oxygen | Aerobic or microaerophilic Metabolism respiratory |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Normally found in freshwater and marine environments and in water-logged soils |
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| Distribution |
| Genome | Beggiatoales |
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| Reference | Beggiatoales |
| First citation | Buchanan, R.E. 1957 Order VII Begioatoales Buchanan, Ordo Nov. in Breed, Murray and Smith (Editors), Bergey;s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology 7th Edition. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore pp. 837-851 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2089-2106 Wm R. Strohl |
| References |