Cross Index Butyrivibrio
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative, Anaerobic, Straight, Curved, and Helical Bacteria and Irregular Gram positive Rods
Compare Gram negative anaerobes

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

Gram positive Irregular rods

Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii

Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Butyrivibrio
CELLULAR  
Staining Stain Gram-negative
Morphology structurally Gram-positiveCurved rods, 0.3-0.8 um by 1.0-5.0 um, single or in chains or filaments which may or may not be helical.
Motility . Motile by polar or subpolar flagella, monotrichous or lophotrichous; some strains may be nonmotile
Specialized structures No resting stages known.
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Butyrivibrio
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophic,
Oxygen Strictly anaerobic. having a fermentative type of metabolism
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Requirements  
Products with carbohydrates being the main fermentable substrates. Glucose or maltose is fermented with butyrate as one of the important products. Under some conditions large amounts of lactic acid and little butyric acid may be produced
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Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat Occur in the rumen of ruminants and sometimes in human, rabbit and horse feces.
Lifestyle  
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Distribution  

 

Genome Butyrivibrio
G+C Mol % 36-41 (Tm)
   

 

Reference Butyrivibrio
First citation Bryant and Small (1956)
Emended  
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 641
Bergey's Determinative p 295
References