Cross Index Alysiella filiformis
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding bacteria
Compare Herpetosiphon, Thioploca and Thiothrix nivea which also have sheaths are a lso included in the Sheathed heterotrophs . The genus Lyngbya which is one of the cyanobacteria also has a sheath.

Sheathed heterotrophs :Clonothrix fusca Crenothrix polyspora, Haliscomenobacter hydrossis, Leptothrix, Lieskeella bifida Phragmidiothrix multiseptata Sphaerotilus natans , Thioploca, Thiothrix nivea, Herpetosiphon

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
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Morphology Alysiella filiformis
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology Organisms that exist in characteristic flat, ribbonlike multicellular filaments. The long axis of the individual cells is perpendicular to the long axis of the filament. The cells within the filament are paired, and in axenic culture the filament often breaks up into groups of two or four cells. The width of an individual cell (the width of a filament) is about 2.0-3.0 um, and the length of a cell is about 0.6 um. The length of the filament is quite variable. The filament does not show either a dorsal-ventral differentiation or a convex-concave curvature in transverse cross-section. The ends of the individual filaments are square...
Motility Motile by gliding of the entire filament in the direction of the long axis
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Growth Parameters Alysiella filiformis
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Tropism Chemoorganotrophic.
Oxygen Aerobic.
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Genome Alysiella filiformis
G+C Mol % 44(Bd)
   

 

Reference Alysiella filiformis
First citation Langeron, M. 1923. Les oscillariees parasites du tube digestif de l'homme et des animaux. Ann Parasitol. Hum. Comp. 1: 113-123
The Prokaryotes  
Bergey's Systematatic p 2110 J. M. Larkin
Bergey's Determinative p 489
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