| Cross Index | Syntrophospora bryantii |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Endospore formers |
| 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 | Syntrophospora bryantii |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram reaction is variable, cell wall is Gram positive |
| Morphology | The endospore forming bacteria are a diverse group of microbes that are considered as a group for convenience. cells are rod shaped |
| Motility | |
| Specialized structures | endospores are oval and terminal and swell the cell |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Syntrophospora bryantii |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | strict anaerobe |
| pH | |
| Temperature | optimum 30 oC |
| Requirements | It uses saturated fatty acids such as butyrate or longer chained, for growth Some strains can grow on crotonate |
| Products | Fatty acids are beta oxidized to acetate and H2 or together with odd numbered straight chain fatty acids to acetate, proprionate, annd H2 in ssyntropic association with H2 scavenging anaerobes |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | Sulfate and nitrate are not reduced |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | aquatic and marine sediments |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Syntrophospora bryantii |
| G+C Mol % |
| Syntrophospora bryantii was originally called Clostridium bryantii but the new genus was created because Syntrophospora differs considerably from the other species of Clostridium in its 16S rRNA sequence |
| Reference | Syntrophospora bryantii |
| First citation | Zhao et al 1990 IJSB 40:40-44 |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 561 |
| References |