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
Subset

 

Morphology

Brevibacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive
Morphology	a marked rod coccus cycle
Motility	non motile
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Brevibacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	strict aerobe :Respiratory metabolism
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products
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.

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Brevibacterium

G+C Mol %

 

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