Cross Index	Acidovorax
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	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 , Flavobacterium Flavomonas oryzihabitans , 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
Subset	Acidovorax facilis Acidovorax delafieldii and Acidovorax temperans

 

Morphology

Acidovorax

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	straight to slightly curved rods (0.2-0.7 x 1.0-5.0 um). Occur singly or in short chains
Motility	motile by means of a single polar flagellum
Specialized structures	no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

no pigment on nutrient agar

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Acidovorax

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph some species are capable of lithoautotrophic growth using hydrgoen as the energy source
Oxygen	obligate aerobe
pH
Temperature
Requirements	grows well on media with organic acids, amino acids and peptone.
Products	oxidative carbohydrate metabolism occurs with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor but only a few sugars are used for growth. Some strains are capable of heterotrophic denitrification of nitrate
Enzymes	oxidase positive, some strains are urease positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Acidovorax

G+C Mol %

62-66

 

Reference

Acidovorax

First Citation	Williams et al 1990 IJSB 40: 384-398
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 73

References