Cross Index	Afipia
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

 

Morphology

Afipia

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	rod shaped cells
Motility	motile by means of a single polar, subpolar or lateral flagellum
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

grow on Buffered charcoal yeast extract agar and blood agar. On Blood agar colonies are grey-white, glistening, convex and opaque on1.5 m wide with entrie edges after 72 hours at 32 oC

Liquid

grow on nutrient broth bu not nutrient borth is 6% Nacl

 

Growth Parameters

Afipia

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	obligate aerobe
pH
Temperature	growth occurs at 32oC but is weak at 35 oC and does not occur at 42 oC
Requirements
Products	turns litmus milk alkaline, do not hemolyse red blood cells. Negative reactions for gas production from nitrate, indole production, H2S production, gelatin hydrolysis and esculin hydrolysis. Acid is not produced from glucose, lactose, maltose or sucrose
Enzymes	oxidase positve, urease positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity	some species are presumtive pathogens for humans

Distribution

 

Genome

Afipia

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Afipia

First Citation	Brenner et al 1991 J. Clin Microbiol 29: 2450-2460 Brenner et al 1992 IJSB 42: 327
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 74

References