Cross Index Brevibacterium
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
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Morphology Brevibacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology a marked rod coccus cycle
Motility non motile
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Growth Parameters Brevibacterium
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Tropism  
Oxygen strict aerobe :Respiratory metabolism
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Enzymes catalase positive
Unique features does not contain mycolic acids.. Peptidoglycan contains me so diaminopimelic acid as the diamino acid. The cell walls do not contain arabinose.
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Genome Brevibacterium
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Reference Brevibacterium
First citation Breed,R.S.(1953) The families developed from from Bacteriaceae Cohn with a description of the family Brevibacteriaceae. Riasss Commun VI Congre. Int Microbiol. Roma 1:10-15
Emended Collins, M.D., M. Goodfellow and D. E. Minnikin. 1980. Fatty acids, isoprenoid quinones and polar lipids in the classification of Curtobacterium and related taxa. J. Gen Microbiol 118: 29-37
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 1301 D. Jones and R.M. Keddie
Bergey's Determinative p 574
References