Cross Index Coriobacterium glomerans
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

very similar to Bifidobacterium

Contrast Archaea
Subset  

 

Morphology Coriobacterium glomerans
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology Irregularly shaped rods that are mainly pearl shaped in long chains
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface colonies are composed of long chains in loops
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Coriobacterium glomerans
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotropic
Oxygen obligate anaerobe
pH  
Temperature 25-30 oC
Requirements  
Products produces hydrogen, fermentative metabolism, ferment glucose to acetate, lactate ethanol, carbon dioxide and hydrogen, ferment several carbohydrates
Enzymes lacks the enzyme fructose-6-phosphate phosphoketolase
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat intestine of red soldier bugs (pyrrhocoris apterus)
Lifestyle probably symbiotic
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Coriobacterium glomerans
G+C Mol %  
   

 

Reference Coriobacterium glomerans
First citation Haas and Konig 1988 IJSB 38: 382-384
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 576
References