David Coil edited Results and Discussion.md  over 8 years ago

Commit id: 588c22864fe2036a6b75cacf12d17ef433f38c56

deletions | additions      

       

**Morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics**  Cells were non-motile and not observed to form spores or possess flagella, though over 30 flagella or flagella-associated genes are present in the genome. In contrast, the genome for a non-motile close relative (_Porphyrobacter cryptus_, GenBank:16153) GenBank: AF465834)  does not contain any flagellar genes so it is possible that strain CoronadoT is motile under specific conditions. Unlike most members of the _Erythrobacteraceae family_, strain CoronadoT is oxidase-negative. This strain is catalase-positive, and unable to hydrolze casein or starch. Cells were oval or rod shaped and ranged in length from 1.2 μm to 2.2 μm with an average of 1.6 μm (Figure 1). Cell width ranged from 0.6 μm to 1.0 μm with an average of 0.8 μm.