Cross Index	Acetobacterium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare	Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium, erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Acetobacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive
Morphology	oval shaped short rods
Motility	motile by one or two subterminal flagella.
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Acetobacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotrops
Oxygen	strict anaerobes
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	oxidize hydrogen and reduce carbon dioxide to acetic acid produce acetic acid from fructose and a limited number of other substrates
Enzymes	Catalase negative
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Acetobacterium

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Acetobacterium

First citation	Balch,W.E., S. Schoberth, R.S. Tanner and R.S.Wolfe (1977) Acetobacterium, a new genus of hydrogen-oxidizing carbon dioxide-reducing, anaerobic bacteria IJSB 27:355-361
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 1373 R. S. Tanner
Bergey's Determinative	p 571

References