Cross Index Corynebacterium
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 Corynebacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive but some cells stain unevenly
Morphology straight to slightly curved rods with tapered ends. Club shaped forms may be observed. Snapping division produces angular and palisade arrangements of cells
Motility nonmotile,
Specialized structures Metachromatic granules formed
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Growth Parameters Corynebacterium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism  
Oxygen facultatively anaerobic although some organisms are aerobic
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Enzymes Catalase positive
Unique features Cell wall peptidoglycan contains meso diaminopimelic acid. Major cell wall sugars are arabinose and galacto se. Short chain mycolic acids (approximate limiting range 22-36 carbon atoms) present.
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Genome Corynebacterium
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Reference Corynebacterium
First citation Lehmann,K.B. and R.Neumann. 1896. Atlas unde Grundiss der Bakteriologie unde Lehrbruch der speciellen Backteriologischen Diagnostik. 1st ed. J.F. Lehmann Munchen
The Prokaryotes P
Bergey's Systematatic p 1266 M.D. Collins and C.S. Cummins
Bergey's Determinative p 576
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