Cross Index	Morococcus cerebrosus
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

 

Morphology

Morococcus cerebrosus

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	cocci < 1 um in diameter, bound firmly together in tightly packed, mulberry-like aggregates of 10-20 cells
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures	no spores by graules

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies on sucrose agar give a black reaction with iodine

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Morococcus cerebrosus

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	strict aerobe
pH	range pH 5.5-9.0
Temperature	range 23- 42 oC
Requirements	no complex growth factors needed, citrate and malonate not utilized
Products	nitrate is reduced, H2S is produced, Acid produced from carbohydrate. Indole not produced. Starch not hydrolysed nor is esculin, gelatin, casein or Tween 80
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase positive, DNase positive, ornithine decarboxylase positive, lecithinase negative, phosphatase negative, phenylalanine deaminase negative urease negative
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	isolated from human brain abscess
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity	pathogenic for mice

Distribution

 

Genome

Morococcus cerebrosus

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Morococcus cerebrosus

First Citation	Long et al 1981 IJSB 31: 294-301
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 91

References