| Cross Index | Bacillus |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Endospore-Forming Gram-Positive Rods and Cocci |
| Compare | Amphibacillus
xylans, Bacillus,
Clostridium,
Desulfotomaculum,
Oscillospira
guilliermondii, Sporohalobacter,
Sporolactobacillus
insulinus, Sporosarcina,
Sulfidobacillus
thermosulfooxidans, Syntrophospora bryantii Other Spore Formers: Pasteuria Thermoactinomyces, Sporomusa, Sarcina Sporichthya polymorpha "Sporospirillum" Sporocytophaga myxococcoides |
| Contrast | Micrococcaceae are not a coherent group. Micrococcus is closely related to Arthrobacter , Planococcus is related to Bacilluss, while the radioresistant cocci called Deinococcus have atypical Gram positive cell walls |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Bacillus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | rods |
| Motility | The vegetative cells are peritrchiously flagellated. |
| Specialized structures | form endospores that are resitent to a wide range of adverse condition. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Bacillus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic or facultatively anaerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | Acid is produce d from glucose most reduce nitrate to nitrite |
| Enzymes | Most species produce catalase most are oxidase positive and |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Bacillus |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Bacillus |
| First citation | Cohn F.(1872) Untersuchungen uber Bakterien. Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1875 1 (heft):127-224 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1105 D. Claus and R.C. W. Berkeley |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 559 |
| References |