| Cross Index | Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram negative Vibriods |
| Compare | Alteromonas, Aquaspirillum, Azospirillum , Bdellovibrio, Campylobacter , Cellvibrio mixtus , Halovibrio variabilis , Helicobacter, Herbaspirillum seropedicae, Marinomonas, Micavibrio admirandus Oceanospirillum, Spirillum, "Sporospirillum", Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus ,Wolinella |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative. |
| Morphology | Comma-shaped rods, 0.3 um in diameter. Larger coccoid forms (0.6um) have also been described (Coder and Starr 1978). |
| Motility | Motile by means of a single, polar, non-sheathed flagellum. |
| Specialized structures |
| Division | binary fission The bacterium does not develop into a spirillar form as part of its life cycle |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
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| Requirments | Cells attach to strains of the alga Chlorella and require viable cells of the alga for development. Penetration of the host cells has not been reported. |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Distribution |
| Genome | Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus |
| G+C Mol % | 50 (cited by Coder and Starr 1978). |
| Reference | Vampirovibrio chlorellavorus |
| First citation | Gromov,B.V. and K.A.Mamkaeva(1980) Proposal of a new genus Vampirovibrio for chorellavorus bacteria previously assigned to Bdellovibrio. Mikrobiologia 49:165-167 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 124 J. C. Burnham and S. F. Conti |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 45 |
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