Cross Index	Oligella
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 Contrast with Moraxella.
Subset	Oligella urethralis Oligella ureolytica

 

Morphology

Oligella

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	small rods, mostly not exceeding 1 um. Often occur in pairs
Motility	nonmotile. Some strain of Oligella urethralis are peritrichously flagellated
Specialized structures	lack the typical plumpness of Moraxella

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies on blood agar develop slowly are not hemolytic and are overtly white. No pigments

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Oligella

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen	aerobe
pH
Temperature
Requirements	growth on nutirent agare is enhanced by the addition of yeast extract, blood or serum
Products	no odour produced. Carbohydrates are neither fermented nor oxidized. Only a few amino acids and orgainc acids are used as the sole carbon source. Indole not Produced. H2S not produced
Enzymes	oxidase positive, Catalase usually positive gelatinase negative
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	isolated from the genitourinary tract of humans
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity	unknown

Distribution

 

Genome

Oligella

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Oligella

First Citation	Rossau et al 1987 IJSB 37: 198-210
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 92

References