Cross Index Aeromonas
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods Vibrionacae
Compare Enterobacteriaceae, Arsenophonus nasoniae, Buttiauxella agrestis, Cedecea, Citrobacter, Edwardsiella, Enterobacter, Erwinia, Escherichia, Ewingella americana, Hafnia alvei, Klebsiella, Kluyvera, Leclercia adecarboxylata, Leminorella, Moellerella wisconsensis, Morganella morganii, Obesumbacterium proteus, Pantoea, Pragia fontium Proteus, Providencia, Rahnella aquatilis, Salmonella, Serratia, Shigella, Tatumella plyseos, Xenorhabdus, Yersina, Yohenella regensburgei

Vibrionacae, Aeromonas, Enhydrobacter aerosaccus, Photobacterium, Plesiomonas shigelloides, Vibrio

Pasteurellaceae, Actinobacillus, Hemophilus, Pasteurella

Calymmatobacterium granulomatis, Cardiobacterium hominis, Chromobacterium, Eikenella corrodens, Gardnerella vaginalis, Streptobacillus moniliformis, Zymomonas
Contrast Archaea
Subset  

 

Morphology Aeromonas
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology Cells straight, rod shaped with rounded ends to coccoid, 0.3-1.0 um in diameter and 1.0-3.5 um in length. Occur singly, in pairs or short chains
Motility Generally motile by a single polar flagellum; peritrichous flagella may be formed on solid media in young cultures. One species is nonmotile.
Specialized structures Resting stages not known
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Aeromonas
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophic, using a variety of sugars and organic acids as carbon sources
Oxygen Facultative anaerobes Metabolism of glucose is both respiratory and fermentative.
pH  
Temperature Optimum temperature, 22-28`C; some strains do not grow at 35`C.
Requirements  
Products Carbohydrates are broken down to acid or acid and gas (CO2 and H2). Nitrate is reduced to nitrite.
Enzymes Oxidase-positive. Catalase-positive.
Unique features .Resistant to the vibriostatic agent 2,4-diamino-6,7-diiso- propylpteridine (0/129)
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Occur in freshwater and sewage.
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity Some species are pathogenic to frogs and fish
Distribution  

 

Genome Aeromonas
G+C Mol % 7-63 ( Bd, Tm).
   

 

Reference Aeromonas
First citation Kluyver, A.J. and C.B. van Niel (1936) Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt. II 94:369-403
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 545 M. Popoff
Bergey's Determinative p 190
References