Cross Index Arthrobacter
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare AAcetobacterium 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 Micrococcus is closely related to Arthrobacter ,

Archaea

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Morphology Arthrobacter
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive but easily decolorized
Morphology has a marked rod coccus cycle
Motility may or may not be motile
Specialized structures  
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Arthrobacter
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism  
Oxygen strict aerobe metabolism is respiratory, never fermentative..
pH  
Temperature Arthrobacter does not survive heating at 63 C for 30 min in skim milk
Requirements  
Products Little or no acid is produced from glucose or other sugars in peptone media
Enzymes produces catalase
Unique features does not contain mycolic acids. The peptidoglycan contains lysine as the diamino acid.
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat  
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Arthrobacter
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Reference Arthrobacter
First citation Conn,H. J. and I. Dimmick (1947) Soil bacteria similar in morphology to Mycobacterium and Corynebacterium J. Bacteriol 54:291-303
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 1288 R. M. Keddie, M. D. Collins and D. Jones
Bergey's Determinative p 573
References