Cross Index Oceanospirlllum
superset Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram negative Vibriods and Gram negative aerobic/ microaerophilic rods and cocci
Compare Gram negative vibroids

Alteromonas, Aquaspirillum, Azospirillum , Bdellovibrio, Campylobacter , Cellvibrio mixtus , Halovibrio variabilis , Helicobacter, Herbaspirillum seropedicae, Marinomonas, Micavibrio admirandus, Oceanospirillum, Spirillum, "Sporospirillum", Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus ,Wolinella


Gram negative aerobic/microaerophilic rods and cocci

Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Flavobacterium, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera

Contrast Archaea,
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Morphology Oceanospirlllum
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology Rigid, helical cells 0.3-1.4 um in diameter. Most species form thin walled coccoid bodies which predominate in old culture Oceanospirillum kriegii and Oceanospirillum jannaschii are straight rods
Motility Motile by bipolar tufts of flagella or by a single flagellum at each pole
Specialized structures Intracellular poly-B-hydroxybutyrate is formed A polar membrane underlies the cytoplasmic membrane at the cell poles in all species so far examined by electron microscopy..
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Oceanospirlllum
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotroph
Oxygen Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor.
pH  
Temperature Optimum temperature, 25- 32`C.
Requires Amino acids or the salts of organic acids serve as carbon sources. Seawater is required for growth.
Produces Nitrate respiration does not occur. Oxidase-positive. Indole- and arylsulfatase-negative. Casein, starch, hippurate and esculin are not hydrolyzed. Carbohydrates are neither oxidized nor fermented.. Growth factors are not usually required
Enzymes  
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Isolated from coastal sea water, decaying seaweed and from putrid infusions of marine mussels
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Oceanospirllum
G+C Mol % 42-51
   

 

Reference Oceanospirlllum
First citation Hylelmon,P.B., J.S. Wells, N.R.Krieg and H.W. Jannasch (1973) The genus Spirillum: a taxonomic study. IJSB 23:20-
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 104 N. R. Kreig
Bergey's Determinative p 44 p 91-92
References