Cross Index Alteromonas
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci and Gram Negative Vibroids
Compare 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, 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

Gram Negative Vibroids:
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 Alteromonas
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram- reaction negative
Morphology Straight or curved rods, 0.7-1.5 um in diameter and 1.8-3.0 um in length
Motility Motile by means of single polar flagella.
Specialized structures Do not accumulate poly-B-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) as an intracellular reserve product. Microcysts or endospores are not formed..
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Alteromonas
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophs
Oxygen capable of respiratory but not fermentative metabolism. Molecular oxygen is a universa electron acceptor;
pH  
Temperature All grow at 20`C.
Requirements All require a seawater base for growth; many strains require organic growth factors.
Products do not denitrify. None of the strains has a constitutive arginine dihydrolase system.
Enzymes  
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Common inhabitants of coastal waters and the open oceans.
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Alteromonas
G+C Mol % 38-50
   

 

Reference Alteromonas
First citation Baumann, P., L. Baumann, M. Mandel and R.D. Allen (1972) Taxomony of aerobic marine eubacteria:. J. Bacteriol 110: 402-429.
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 343 P. Baumann, M. J. Gauthier and L. Baumann
Bergey's Determinative p 75
p 39
References