| Cross Index | Pimelobacter |
| 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 Pimelobacter is similar to Arthrobacter morphologically |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Pimelobacter |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive but old cultures may be decolourized easily, not acid fast |
| Morphology | have a makred rod-coccus cycle. Young cultures contains irregular rods 9o.5-1.2 x 1.0-7.0 um) mostly as single cells but often showing branching. Old cultures are predominantly coccoid cells. |
| Motility | motile by peritrichous flagella |
| Specialized structures | no spores+ |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | smooth white or yellowish white colonies |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Pimelobacter |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | aerobe |
| pH | |
| Temperature | optimum 25-30 oC |
| Requirements | nutritionally non exacting. , respiratory metobolism |
| Products | acid not produced by carbohydrates in peptone based media. glucose is used as the sole carbon source, nitrates may be reduced |
| Enzymes | gelatinase positive, catalase positive |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | soil |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution | wide distribution |
| Genome | Pimelobacter |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Pimelobacter |
| First citation | Suzuki and Komagata 1983 J. Gen Appl. Bacteriol 29:59-71 Suzuki and Komagata 1983 IJSB 33:673-675 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 579-580 |
| References |