Imhoff, Johannes F. (2015) Chromatium. In: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. . Wiley, Chichester, p. 1. DOI 10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01105.

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Abstract

Chro.ma' ti.um. Gr. n. chroma color; M.L. neut. n. Chromatium one which is colored.

Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Chromatiales / Chromatiaceae / Chromatium

Cells are straight or slightly curved rods, more than 3 µm wide, single or in pairs, multiply by binary fission. Motile by a polar tuft of multitrichous flagella that can be seen in the light microscope, Gram negative, belong to the Gammaproteobacteria, and contain internal photosynthetic membranes of vesicular type in which the photosynthetic pigments bacteriochlorophyll a and carotenoids are located.

The mol% G + C of the DNA is: 48.0–50.0.

Type species: Chromatium okenii (Ehrenberg 1838) Perty 1852,174 (Monas okenii Ehrenberg 1838, 15.)

Document Type:	Book chapter
Research affiliation:	OceanRep > GEOMAR > FB3 Marine Ecology > FB3-MS Marine Symbioses
Main POF Topic:	PT6: Marine Life
Publisher:	Wiley
Date Deposited:	14 Jan 2022 09:59
Last Modified:	14 Jan 2022 09:59
URI:	https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/54832

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