Cross Index	Rarobacter faecitabidus
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
Subset

 

Morphology

Rarobacter faecitabidus

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram positive in young cultures, Gram variable in old cultures, not acid fast
Morphology	small individual irregular shaped rods (-2.-0.3 x 0.8-1.0 um that may show V arrangements. No branching
Motility	multitrichous flagella
Specialized structures	no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

pale yello, opaque, convex smooth colonies

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Rarobacter faecitabidus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen	facultative anaerobes
pH
Temperature	optimum 30 oC
Requirements	require catalase, hemoglobin or hemin for grow in air, require carbon dioxide for anaerobic growth. Require thiamine and biotin,
Products	fermentative metaolbism; produce acid but no gas from glucose and a few other charbohydrates No assimilation was reported with a wide range of organic acids, indole negative, nitrate not reduced, starch, casein and gelatin hydrolysed but not cellulsoe
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase positive
Unique features	adhere to and lyse living yeast cells

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	wastewaters of alcoholic beverage factories
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Rarobacter faecitabidus

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Rarobacter faecitabidus

First citation	Yamamoto et al 1988 IJSB 38:7-11
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 580

References