Cross Index Sphingobacterium
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 Sphingobacterium spiritivorum, Sphingobacterium multivorum, Sphingobacterium mizutae

 

Morphology Sphingobacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram negative
Morphology straight rods
Motility no flagella but some strains exhibit gliding motilit on semisolid agar
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COLONIAL  
Solid surface colonies become yellow after several days at room temperature
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Sphingobacterium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotroph
Oxygen strict aerobe
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Requirements no specialized growth requirements
Products acid produced from carbohyrates, inodle negative, acetylmethylcarbinol not prdocued
Enzymes catalase positive, non proteolytic
Distinctive features Cellular lipids contain sphingolipids whose ceramide moieties are chiefly branched chain dihydrosaturated C17:0 sphingosin and major acid is i-2-OH-C15:0.
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Genome Sphingobacterium
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Reference Sphingobacterium
First Citation Yabuuchi et al 1983 IJSB 33: 580-598
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 97
References