Arthrobacter

Arthrobacter (from the Greek, "jointed small stickā€) is a genus of bacteria that is commonly found in soil. All species in this genus are Gram-positive obligate aerobes that are rods during exponential growth and cocci in their stationary phase. Arthrobacter have a distinctive method of cell division called "snapping division" or reversion in which the outer bacterial cell wall ruptures at a joint.

Arthrobacter
Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Micrococcaceae
Genus: Arthrobacter
Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type species
Arthrobacter globiformis
corrig. (Conn 1928) Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species

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