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
Subset

 

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
pH
Temperature
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

G+C Mol %

 

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