Cross Index	Methylomonas
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

Methylomonas

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative
Morphology	Straight, curved or banched rods, but not helical, 0.5-1.0 x 1.0-4.0 um...
Motility	Motile by a single polar flagellum
Specialized structures	Resting stages are cysts Sheaths or prosthecae are not known.

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Methylomonas

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor
pH
Temperature	Temperature range for growth, 20-35`C
Requirements	Methane, methanol and formaldehyde are the only known sole sources of energy and carbon. Organic growth factors are not required.
Products
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Methylomonas

G+C Mol %

52.1

 

Reference

Methylomonas

First citation	Leadbetter,E.R.(1974) Family Methylomonadaceae. In Buchanan and Gibbons (Editors), Bergeys Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th Ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co.. Baltimore pp 267-269.
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Systematatic	p 260 R. Whittenbury and N. R. Krieg
Bergey's Determinative	p 89

References