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,
Flattened, filamentous Gliding: Alysiella filiformis, Simonsiella,
Sulfur oxidizing,Gliding: Achromatium, Beggiatoa alba, Thioploca, Thiospirillopsis floridana, Thiothrix nivea,
The Pelonemas: Achroanema spp, Desmanthos thiorenophilum, Pelenema, Peloploca,
Other Genera: Agitococcus lubricus , Desulfonema Herpetosiphon, Isosphaera pallida, Leucothrix mucor, Saprospira, Toxothrix trichogenes,Vitreoscilla

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