Cross Index Thermoanaerobium brockii
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular 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
Thermoanaerobium brockii may be the same as Thermoanaerobacter
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Morphology Thermoanaerobium brockii
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive
Morphology Young cultures have irregular rods (0.8-1.0 c 2-20 um) arragneed as single cells, pairs of cells or short chains. Older cultures show long chains of rods interspered with short rods or cocci
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface round, mucoid, flat, nonpigmented colonies
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Thermoanaerobium brockii
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen anarobie
pH  
Temperature thermophilic; growth from 45-75 oC, optimum 70 oC
Requirements nutritionally exactin, require yast extract and a fermentable carbohydrate
Products fermentative metabolsim producing acid and gase from glucose ( lactate, ethanol, acetate, hydrogen and carbon dioxide), ferments a range of carbohydrates
Enzymes catalase negative
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat geothermal hot spring
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Thermoanaerobium brockii
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Reference Thermoanaerobium brockii
First citation Zeikus et al 1979 Arch Microbiol 122: 41-48
Zeikus et al 1983 IJSB 33: 672-674
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 582
References