Cross Index

Ilyobacter

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

Ilyobacter

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	generally short rods 0.7- 1.0 x 1.3-3.0 um) occurring in pairs or chains
Motility	may be motile or non motile
Specialized structures	no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Ilyobacter

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph
Oxygen
pH
Temperature	optimum 28-34oC
Requirements	grows best in1% NaCl.
Products	ferments a variety of sugars and organic acids such as 3-hydroxybutyrate, crotonate, L-tartarate, citrate, pyruvates, malate, fumarate, glucose, fructose, and glycerol and giving a variety of end products depending on the substrate Glucose is feremented to acetate, formate, and ethanol
Enzymes
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	marine anoxic muds
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Ilyobacter

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Ilyobacter

First Citation	Stieb and Schink 1984 Arch Microbiol 140: 139-146 Stieb and Schink 1985 IJSB 35: 375
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 297

References

Schink 1984 Arch Microbiol 139:409-414 Schink 1985 IJSB 35:375