| Cross Index | Myxococcus |
| 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 | Myxococcus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | Vegetative cells are slender rods with tapering ends, 0.4-0.7 x 2.0-10.0 um.. |
| Motility | gliding motility |
| Specialized structures | Fruiting bodies contain refractile, spherical or ellipsoidal microcysts up to 2.3 um in the largest dimension. The microcysts are not enclosed in a sporangium |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies absorb Congo red. Resistant to 10-unit disks of penicillin. Sensitive to 10-ug disks of neomycin and tetracycline and to 5-ug disks of erythromycin. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Myxococcus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophs |
| Oxygen | Strict aerobes Metabolism respiratory |
| pH | |
| Temperature | Fail to grow at 40`C or above |
| Requirements | Those which have been studied require several amino acids and are capable of hydrolyzing protein, starch, nucleic acids and various fatty acid esters |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | Noncellulolytic |
| Unique features | Known to lyse bacteria, yeast and certain filamentous fungi.. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Myxococcus |
| G+C Mol % | 68-71 (Mandel and Leadbetter 1965) |
| Reference | Myxococcus |
| First citation | Jahn,E. 1924. Beitrage zur botanischen Protistologie. I. Die Polyangiden. Verlag Gebruder Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp 1-107. |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2144 E.R. Brockman |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 522 |
| References |