Cross Index Bacteroides
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci and Gram-Negative, Anaerobic, Straight, Curved, and Helical Bacteria
Compare Gram negative Aerobic/Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci

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, Flavobacterium, Flavomonas oryzihabitans, 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


Gram negative anaerobic helical and curved bacteria

Acetivibrio Acetoanaerobium noterate , Acetofilamentum rigidum, Acetogenium kivui, Acetomicrobium, Acetothermus paucivorans,, Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans, Anaerbioospirillum succiniciproducens, , Anaerorhabdus furcosus ,Anaerovibrio, Bacteroides, Butyrivibrio, Centipeda periodontii, Fervidobacterium, Fibrobacter, Fusobacterium Haloanaerobium praevalens, Halobacteroides halobius, Ilyobacter, Lachnospira multparus Leptotrichia buccalis, Malaonomonas rubra, Megamonas hypermega, Mitsuokella, Oxalobacter formigenes, Pectinatus, Pelobacter Porphyromonas, Provotella, Propionigenium modestum, Propionispira arboria, Rikenella microfusus, Roseburia ceciola, Ruminobacter amylophilus, Sebaldella termitidis, Selenomonas, Sporomusa, Succinimonas amylolytica, Succinivibrio dextrinosolvens, Syntrophobacter wolinii, Syntrophomonas, Thermobacteroides, Thermosipho africanus, Thermotoga, Tissierella praeacuta, Wolinella, Zymophilus

Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Bacteroides
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology rods
Motility non-motile or motile by peritrichous flagella
Specialized structures Nonsporeforming
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Growth Parameters Bacteroides
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophs. Metabolize carbohydrates, peptone, or metabolic intermediates.
Oxygen Most Bacteroides are obligate anarobes Bacteroides ureolyticus and Bacteroides gracilis were originally described as being obligately anaerobic Gram negative rods but are microaerophilic. These species are hydrogen and formate requiring microaerophiles capable of respiring with oxygen ( Han et al 1991 IJSB 41: 218-222)
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Products Fermentation products of saccharoclastic species include combinations of succinate, acetate, lactate, formate or propionate, sometimes with short-chained alcohols; butyrate usually is not a major product. Trace to moderate amounts of isobutyrate and isovalerate may be produced (from peptone). From peptone, nonsaccaroclastic species produce either (a) combinations of trace to moderate amounts of succinate, formate, acetate and lactate or (b) combinations of moderate to major amounts of acetate, butyrate, succinate, isovalerate, propionate, isobutyrate and alcohols. When n- butyrate is produced, isobutyrate and isovalerate also are present.
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Genome Bacteroides
G+C Mol % 28-61
   

 

Reference Bacteroides
First citation Castellani, A. and A.J. Chalmers (1919) Manual of Tropical Medicine, 3rd Ed Williams,Wood and Co. New York
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 604 L. V. Holdman, R. W. Kelly, W.E.C. Moore
Bergey's Determinative p 102
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