Cross Index	Flavobacterium
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, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Flavobacterium, 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

Flavobacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative.
Morphology	Rods with parallel sides and rounded ends, typically 0.5 um wide and 1.0-3.0 um long. formed.
Motility	Nonmotile. Do not glide or spread
Specialized structures	Intracellular granules of poly-B-hydroxybutyrate are absent. nonsporing

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Growth on solid media is typically pigmented (yellow to orange) but nonpigmented strains occur. Colonies are translucent (occasionally opaque), circular (diameter 1-2 mm), convex or low convex, smooth and shiny with entire edges

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Flavobacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen	Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism.
pH
Temperature	Environmental isolates grow at temperature from 5-30`C; most clinical isolates also grow at 37`C
Requirements	.
Products	Agar is not digested. Acid but no gas is produced from carbohydrates in media having a low peptone concentration.
Enzymes	... Catalase-, oxidase- and phosphatase-positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	Widely distributed in soil and water.; also found in raw meats, milk and other foods, and in the hospital environment and in human clinical material.
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Flavobacterium

G+C Mol %

31-42

 

Reference

Flavobacterium

First citation	Bergey,D.H.,,F.C. Harrison, R.S. Breed, B.W. Hammer and F.M. Huntoon (1923) Bergey's manual of determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed The Williams and Wilkins Co Baltimore pp 1-462
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 353 B. Holmes, R.J. Owen and T.A. McMeekin
Bergey's Determinative	p 83

References