Cross Index Megamonas hypermega
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 Megamonas hypermega
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram negative
Morphology large rods (0.8-3.0 x 3-20 um) with rounded ends
Motility nonmotile
Specialized structures usually granular in appearance because of volutin granules, no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface  
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Megamonas hypermega
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotrophic
Oxygen anaerobe
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Requirements  
Products ferment a variety of carbohydrates. The end porducts are acetic, proprionic and lactiv\c acids
Enzymes  
Unique features do not contain sphingolipids, or menaquinones and non-hydroxylated fatty acids are predominantly straight chain
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat isolated from the intestinal tracts of humans, animals and poultry
Lifestyle  
Pathogenicity  
Distribution  

 

Genome Megamonas hypermega
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Reference Megamonas hypermega
First Citation Shah and Collins 1982 Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Hyg C3: 394-398
Shah and Collins 1983 IJSB 33:439
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 298
References