Cross Index Fusobacterium
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative, Anaerobic, Straight, Curved, and Helical Bacteria
Compare 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 Fusobacterium
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram-negative
Morphology rods
Motility All described species are nonmotile.
Specialized structures Nonsporeforming
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Growth Parameters Fusobacterium
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism Chemoorganotrophs. Metabolize peptone or carbohydrates
Oxygen obligately anaerobic.
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Products Major products from peptone or carbohydrate include butyrate, often with acetate and lactate and lesser amounts of propionate, succinate, and formate and short-chained alcohols. Isobutyrate and isovalerate are not produced
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Genome Fusobacterium
G+C Mol % (in the species examined) ranges from 26 to 34 for the type and 5 other species and is from 52 to 57 mol% for F. praunsnitzii.
   

 

Reference Fusobacterium
First citation Knoor, M. 1922. Uber die fusospirllare Symbiose, die Gattung Fusobacterium (K. B. Lehman und Spirillum Sputigenum. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Bakteriologie der Mundhohle II Mitteilung. Die Gattung Fusobacterium. Zentralbl Bakteriol Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. I. Abt. Orig 89:4-22
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Systematatic p 631
Bergey's Determinative p 296
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