Cross Index	Taylorella equigenitalis
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

Taylorella equigenitalis

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	rods that are often spherical in shape (0.7 x 0.7- 1.8 um) with occasional filaments 5-6 um long
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Taylorella equigenitalis

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen	microaerophile. optimum growth occurs under 5-10% CO2.Metabolism is strictly respiratory with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor
pH
Temperature	optimum 35- 37 oC range 30-42 oC
Requirements	Grows best on chocolate agar but X and V factors do not stimulate growth. No growth on ordinary media and little if any growth on blood agar
Products	nitrate and nitrite are not reduced. Acid is not produced from carbohydrates Indole negative, do not produce H2S
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase positive, phosphatase positive, phosphoamidase positive, lysine decarboxylase negative, ornithine decaroxylase negative, arginine dihydrolase negative, urease negative, gelatinase negative, lipase negative, DNase negative
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	Occurs as a commensal on the external genitals of healthy stallions and may survive for long periods of time in the clitoridal region and the vulva of mares after infection
Lifestyle	Parasites of Horses
Pathogenicity	Pathogenic for mares where it causes endometritis and cervicitis as a result of venereal exposure to carrier stallions

Distribution

 

Genome

Taylorella equigenitalis

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Taylorella equigenitalis

First Citation	Sugimoto et al 1983 Curr Microbiol 9: 155-162 Sugimoto et al 1984 IJSB 34: 503-504
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 102

References