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
Subset

 

Morphology

Fusobacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative
Morphology	rods
Motility	All described species are nonmotile.
Specialized structures	Nonsporeforming

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Fusobacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophs. Metabolize peptone or carbohydrates
Oxygen	obligately anaerobic.
pH
Temperature
Requirements
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
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

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

References