Cross Index	Methylophaga
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

Methylophaga

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	short straight rods (0.2 um in diameter)
Motility	motile by means of a single polar flagellum
Specialized structures	cells have a very thick (20-30 nm) periplasmic space

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Methylophaga

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	strict aerobe
pH
Temperature
Requirements	moderate halophile auxotrophic for vitamin B12. Strains do not grow on peptone yeast extract with or without NaCl.
Products	With the exception of fructose, the only growth substrates that are used are C1 compounds such as methanol and methylamine, which are dissimilated by the RuMP pathway. Do not grow on methane.
Enzymes
Unique features	cells can be broken by osmotic shock after wshing with 0.5 M NaCl

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	isolated from marine environments
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Methylophaga

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Methylophaga

First Citation	Janvier et al 1985 IJSB 35: 131-139
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 89

References