| Cross Index | Cystobacter |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Myxobacteria |
| Compare | Angiococcus disciformis, Archangium gephyra, Chondromyces, "Corallococcus", Cystobacter, "Haploangium", Melittangium, Myxococcus, Nannocystis exedens, Polyangium "Sorangium cellulosum" Stigmatella |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Cystobacter |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | Vegetative cells are slender, tapered, flexible rods. |
| Motility | glidiing motility |
| Specialized structures | Sporangia are usually sessile, occurring singly or in groups rounded, elongated or coiled and surrounded by a definite slime envelope or wall; they are either free or embedded in a second slimy layer. Microcysts are rod-shaped, phase-dense or refractile, and rigid. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Vegetative colonies do not etch or erode agar media. Congo red is absorbed |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Cystobacter |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
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| Requirements | The minimum nutritional requirements are now known, but all species are easily cultivated on media containing enzymatically hydrolyzed protein, salts and starch or glycogen. The latter is not utilized. Cellulose is not digested |
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| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Cystobacter |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Cystobacter |
| First citation | Schroeter 1886 Schroeter, J. 1885-1889. In Cohn (Editor). Krytogamenflora von Schlesien Bd. 3, Heft 3, Pilze. J.U. Kern's Verlag, Breslau, pp 1-814 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2150 H. D. McCurdy |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 520 |
| References |