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DictyoglomusRANK: GenusTAXONOMY: cellular organisms -> Bacteria -> Dictyoglomi -> Dictyoglomia -> Dictyoglomales -> Dictyoglomaceae -> Dictyoglomus OVERVIEW: Slender rod to filamentous cells (5–30 × 0.35–0.45 µm), which occur singly or in pairs. Nonsporeforming and nonmotile; no flagella have been observed. Stain Gram-negative, and cell walls possess outer and an inner cell wall layers. Spherical balls of cells, termed rotund bodies, formed due to either cell aggregation or by cell division, are commonly observed. The walls of the cells in the rotund bodies are portioned with the rotund bodies acquiring the outer wall layer with the cells attached to the inner wall layer. Thermophilic, neutrophilic, chemoorganotrophs which are strict anaerobes. Ferment carbohydrates to acetate, lactate, ethanol, CO2, and H2. Occur in natural thermal hot springs and man-made thermal environments .DNA G+C content (mol%): 29–34. Type species: Dictyoglomus thermophilum |