Cross Index	Lachnospira multiparus
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

Lachnospira multiparus

CELLULAR

Staining	weakly Gram positive; the Gram stain may be negative except in very young cultures
Morphology	curved rods 0.4- 0.6 microns wide and 2-40 microns long with bluntly pointed ends.
Motility	Motile by monotrichous lateral or subpolar flagella
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies are filamentous, woolly in appearance

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Lachnospira multiparus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen
pH
Temperature
Requirements
Products	The products of glucose fermentation are formate, lactate, acetate, ethanol carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Pectin is also fermented
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Lachnospira multiparus

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Lachnospira multiparus

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
The Prokaryotes	P
Bergey's Systematatic	p 661 M.P. Bryant p 1375 M.P. Bryant
Bergey's Determinative	p 579

References