| 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 |
| Subset |
| 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 |
| G+C Mol % |
| 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 |