| 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 |