| Cross Index | Microscilla |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding Bacteria |
| Compare | Cytophagales, Beggiatoales Single
Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
Chitinophaga
pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
Flexithrix dorotheae,
Lysobacter,
Microscilla,
Sporocytophaga
myxococcoides, Thermomena, |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Microscilla |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | Long thin flexible threadlike rods usually measuring from 10 to > 100 um |
| Motility | Motile by gliding |
| Specialized structures | Cell mass more or less intensely orange or yellow |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Microscilla |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophs |
| Oxygen | Strictly aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | Do not grow below half-strength seawater (only some strains of M. tractuosa tolerate lower salt concentrations).All grow on peptones as sole source of nitrogen. Chitin and cellulose are not attacked, but other poly-saccharides including carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) may be decomposed |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Marine, from coastal habitats |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Microscilla |
| G+C Mol % | 37-44 (Bd) |
| Reference | Microscilla |
| First citation | Pringsheim,E.G. 1951. The Vitreoscillaceae: a family of colourless, gliding, filamentous organisms. J. Gen. Microbiol 5: 124-149 |
| Emended | Lewin, R.A. 1969. A classification of flexibacteria. J. Gen. Microbiol. 58: 189-206 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2071 H. Reichenbach |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 488 |
| References |