Cross Index Methylococcus
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
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Morphology Methylococcus
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology Cells spherical, usually occurring in pairs.
Motility Nonmotile.
Specialized structures Resting stage is a cyst.
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Growth Parameters Methylococcus
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Tropism  
Oxygen Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor.
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Requirements Methane, methanol and formaldhyde are the only known compounds serving as sole carbon and energy sources.

No organic growth factors are required.

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Genome Methylococcus
G+C Mol % 62.5
   

 

Reference Methylococcus
First citation Foster,J.W. and R.H. Davis (1966) A methane dependent coccus with notes on classification and nomenclature of obligate, methane-utilizing bacteria. J. Bacteriol 91:1924-1931
The Prokaryotes P
Bergey's Systematatic p 259 R. Whittenbury and N. R. Krieg
Bergey's Determinative p 88
References