Cross Index	Butyrivibrio
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods and Gram-Negative, Anaerobic, 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
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Butyrivibrio

CELLULAR

Staining	stain Gram negative although they are structurally Gram positive.
Morphology	forms curved rods 0.3-0.8 microns x 1-5 microns in single, or chains or filaments
Motility	motile by polar or subpolar flagella
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Butyrivibrio

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen	strict anaerobes :fermentative metabolism
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	Glucose or maltose is fermented with butyrate as one of the important products
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Butyrivibrio

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Butyrivibrio

First citation	Bryant,M.P. and N.Small (1956) Characteristics of two new genera of anaerobic curved rods isolated from the rumen of cattle . J. Bacteriol 72:16-21
Emended	Moore,W.E.C., J.L.Johnson and L.V.Holdeman (1976)Emendation of Bacteriodaceae and Butyrivibrio and descriptions of Desulfolmonas gen. Nov. and ten new species in the genera Desulfomonas, Butyrivibrio, Eubacterium, Clostridium and Ruminococcus IJSB 26: 238-252
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 641 M.P. Bryant p 1376 M.P. Bryant
Bergey's Determinative	p 574

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