Cross Index Acetogenium kivui
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods and Gram negative Anarobic Straight curved and helical Bacteria
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

anaerobic Gram negative curved or helical bacteria

Acetivibrio Acetoanaerobium noterate , Acetofilamentum rigidum, Acetogenium kivui, Acetomicrobium, Acetothermus paucivorans,, Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans, Anaerbioospirillum succiniciproducens, , Anaerorhabdus furcosus ,Anaerovibrio, Bacteroides, Butyrivibrio, Centipeda periodontii, Fervidobacterium, Fibrobacter, Fusobacterium Haloanaerobium praevalens, Halobacteroides halobius, Ilyobacter, Lachnospira multparus Leptotrichia buccalis, Malaonomonas rubra, Megamonas hypermega, Mitsuokella, Oxalobacter formigenes, Pectinatus, Pelobacter Porphyromonas, Provotella, Propionigenium modestum, Propionispira arboria, Rikenella microfusus, Roseburia ceciola, Ruminobacter amylophilus, Sebaldella termitidis, Selenomonas, Sporomusa, Succinimonas amylolytica, Succinivibrio dextrinosolvens, Syntrophobacter wolinii, Syntrophomonas, Thermobacteroides, Thermosipho africanus, Thermotoga, Tissierella praeacuta, Wolinella, Zymophilus

Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Acetogenium kivui
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram negative
Morphology cell wall is of the Gram positive type, straight rods in single cells or pairs
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Acetogenium kivui
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemolithotrophic chemoorganotrophic fermentation of carbohydrates to yiels acetic acid
Oxygen obligate anaerobe
pH  
Temperature thermophilic growth range 50-72 oC optimum 66 oC
Requirements obligate requirement for cysteine or sulfide
Products oxidize hydrogen and reduce carbon dioxide to yield acetic acid
Enzymes catalase negative
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat found in the mud of a tropical lake
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Acetogenium kivui
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Reference Acetogenium kivui
First citation Leigh et al 1981 Arch Microbiol 129:275-280
Leigh et al 1983 IJSB 33:886
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 571
References