Cross Index Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
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 Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive but cells from a growing culture stain Gram negative
Morphology rods in the logarithmic growth phase which later become chains of rods interspersed with coccoid cells
Motility One -twelve peritrious flagella cause tumbling motility
Specialized structures Capsules are not formed nor are spores
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Growth Parameters Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophs
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Temperature grow optimally at 68/69 C but can grow at 35 C or as high as 78 C.
Requirements  
Products main fermentation products of these are ethanol and carbon dioxide from hexoses and pentoses. Minor products are lactate, acetate and hydrogen. Starch is hydrolysed but not cellulose
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Genome Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
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Reference Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus
First citation Wiegel. J. and L.G.Ljungdahl (1981) Thermoanerobacter ethanolicus gen. Nov., a new, extreme thromophilic, anaerobic bacterium. Arch. Microbiol 128:343-348
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 1379 J. K. W. Wiegel
Bergey's Determinative p 582
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