Cross Index	Chromohalobacter marismortui
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

 

Morphology

Chromohalobacter marismortui

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	rods (0.6-1.0 x 1.5- 4.0 um) when grown in the presence of 10% NaCl. Cells ae longer is the NaCl concentration is higher or lwer
Motility	motile by means of peritrichous flagella
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

On soilid complex media supplemented with 10% NaCl, colonies are circular, smoothm convex, entire and concentrically ringed with dark brown centers followed by bluish brown, grayish brown and yellow rings. They produce a yellow pigments and a violet blue pigment which is not violacein. Pigment formation is favoured by suboptima growth temperatures, glycerol and 10% NaCl

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Chromohalobacter marismortui

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganothrophic
Oxygen	aerobe, strictly respiratory metabolism
pH	optimum pH 7.5 range pH 5-10
Temperature	optimum 37 oC, range 5-45 oC
Requirements	optimum growth occurs in media supplemented with 10% NaCl
Products	acid produced from D-glucose or other carbohydrates. Gelatin, casein, Tween 80, starch, esculin and tyrosine are not hydrolysed. Carbohydrates, amino acids and some polyols can serve as sole carbon sources. Usually nitrate is reduced to nitrite which is not further reduced. Simmons citrate is used
Enzymes	no prodcution of phosphatase, indole, urease, acetoin, DNase, Beta-galactosidase, phenylalanine deaminase, arginine dihiydrolase, lysine decarboxylase aor arnithine decarboxylase
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	Dead Sea and marine salterns
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Chromohalobacter marismortui

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Chromohalobacter marismortui

First Citation	Ventosa et al 1989 IJSB 39:382-386
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 79

References