| Cross Index | Flectobacillus |
| superset | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative curved bacteria |
| Compare | Ancylobacter
aquaticus , "Brachyarcus thiophilus",
Cyclobacterium
marinum, Flectobacillus, Meniscus glaucopis, "Pelosigma", Runella slithyformis, Spirosoma linguale |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Flectobacillus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative. |
| Morphology | Rigid straight to curved rods, the degree of curvature varying among individual cells with a culture. The most abundantly occurring are cells in the shape of the letter C or a closed ring. The cells measure 0.3-1.0 um wide by 1.5-5.0 um long. Long sinuous filaments up to 50 um long may be present. Overlapping of the ends of a cell forms rings 0.8-10.0 um in outer diameter. Coils or helices may be present. |
| Motility | Non motile. |
| Specialized structures | Resting stages are not known. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Flectobacillus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | Obligate aerobes, possessing a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Flectobacillus |
| G+C Mol % | 34-40 |
| Reference | Flectobacillus |
| First citation | Larkin,J.M., P.M.Williams and R.Taylor (1977) Taxonomy of the genus Microcyclus Orskov 1928: Reintroduction and emendation of the genus Spirosoma Migula 1894 and proposal of a new genus Flectobacillus IJSB 27:147-156 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 129 J.M. Larkin and R. Borrall |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 66 |
| References |