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

Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Pelenema
CELLULAR  
Staining  
Morphology Cells colourless, more or less cylindrical, usually with gas vesicles in the center. Cells arranged in multicellular, unbranched straight or loosely flexuose filaments of uniform thickness, which may or may not be constricted at the cross-walls
Motility Filaments of some species occasionally show a slow gliding motility
Specialized structures Propagation by fragmentation of filaments. Resting cells unknown
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface Pure cultures are not available.
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Pelenema
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism presumably heterotrophic
Oxygen Anaerobic
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ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Found in the hypo-limnion and on the sediment surface of deeper lakes or stratified ponds
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Genome Pelenema
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Reference Pelenema
First citation Lauterborn,R. 1916. Die sapropelische Lebewelt. Ein Beitrag zur Biologie des Faulschlammes naturlicher Gewasser. Verh. Naturkundl. Med. Ver. Heidelb. 13: 395-481
The Prokaryotes  
Bergey's Systematatic p 2112 P. Hirsch
Bergey's Determinative p 494
References