| Cross Index | Myxobacteria |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria |
| Compare | |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset | Angiococcus disciformis, Archangium gephyra, Chondromyces, "Corallococcus", Cystobacter, "Haploangium", Melittangium, Myxococcus, Nannocystis exedens, Polyangium "Sorangium cellulosum" Stigmatella |
| Morphology | Myxobacteria |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | Rods |
| Motility | gliding motility |
| Specialized structures | fruiting bodies, and myxospores that resist dessication |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | These gliding bacteria produce swarms as they move over the surface of the agar plate and leave a slime trail. Swarming is more evident of lean media rather than rich media Generally they ar brightly coloured |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Myxobacteria |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophs that can decompose many different biomolecules |
| Oxygen | strictly aerobic |
| pH | neutral pH |
| Temperature | mesophile |
| Requirements | minerals such as found in soil and fresh water |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | soils with neutral pH and noraml salt range; fresh water, decaying organic material such as dung from herbivore, rotting wood and tree bark |
| Lifestyle | saprophytic |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution | global, abundant in warm, semidry and dry environments, and tropical and temperate semideserts |
| Genome | Myxobacteria |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Myxobacteria |
| First citation | Tchan, Y.T, J.Pochon and A.R. Prevot. 1948. Edtudes de systematique bacterienne. VIII. Essai de classification des Cytophaga. Ann Inst Pasteur (paris) 74:394-400 |
| The Prokaryotes | p 3417 The Myxobacteria H. Reichenbach and M. Dworkin |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2139 H. D. McCurdy |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 515-558 |
| References |