| Cross Index | Sporolactobacillus insulinus |
| 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 | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Sporolactobacillus insulinus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive |
| Morphology | straight rods, 0.7-0.8 x 3-5 um, occurring singly, in pairs, rarely in short chains |
| Motility | Motile by means of a small number of long peritrichous flagella. |
| Specialized structures | Endospores formed |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Sporolactobacillus insulinus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Microaerophilic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | homolactic fermentation
of hexoses no cytochromes contains menaquinones but no ubiquinone; nitrate is not reduced and indole is not formed; contains odd-numbered saturated anteiso- and iso-branched but no unsaturated even-numbered or cyclopropane fatty acids |
| Enzymes | lack catalase |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Sporolactobacillus insulinus |
| G+C Mol % | 38 (Tm) (Weiss, unpublished) to 39.3 (Chem) (Suzuki and Kitahara 1964). |
| Reference | Sporolactobacillus insulinus |
| First citation | Kitahara ,K. and J. Suzuki (1963) Sporolactobacillus Nov. subgen. J. Gen Appl. Microbiol. 9: 59-71 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1139 O. Kandler and N. Weiss |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 560 |
| References |