| Cross Index | Brochothrix |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Regular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods |
| Compare | Brochothrix, Carnobacterium, Caryophanon, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Brochothrix |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | rod occur singly, in short chains or in long filamentous liike chains which fold into knotted masses |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures | Neither capsules nor endospores are formed |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Brochothrix |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | aerobic and facultatively anaerobic. Fermentative metabolism |
| pH | |
| Temperature | optimal at 20-25 C and rarely occurs above 30 C |
| Requirements | |
| Products | Fermentative metabolism of glucse results in the production of lactic acid. Methyl red, voges proskaur positive, citrate is not used cytochromes are produced |
| Enzymes | Catalase positive Enzymes of the TCA cycles are absent. |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Brochothrix |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Brochothrix |
| First citation | Sneath, P.H.A. and D. Jones (1976) Brochothrix, a new genus tentatively placed in the family Lactobacillaceae IJSB 26:102-104 |
| The Prokaryotes | P |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1249 P. H. A. Sneath and D. Jones |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 565 |
| References |