Cross Index	Weeksella
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	Weeksella virosa Weeksella zoohelcum

 

Morphology

Weeksella

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	straight rods( 0.6 x2-3 um) with rounded ends
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures	NO intracellular granules of poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate no endospores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies are nonpigmented, circulater ( 0.5-2 mm diameter), low, convex, smooth and shiny with entire edges

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Weeksella

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen	strict aerobe
pH
Temperature	range 18- 42 oC
Requirements
Products	agar not digested, nonsaccharolytic, Indole positive
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	parasites, saprophyte or commensals of the internal surfaces of humans and other warm blooded animals
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Weeksella

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Weeksella

First Citation	Holmes et al 1986 Syst. Appl. Microbiol 8: 185-190 Holmes et al 1987 IJSB 37:179-180
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 99

References

Holmes et al 1986 Syst. Appl. Microbiol 8: 191-196. Holmes et al 1987 IJSB 37: 179