Flavobacteriales

The Flavobacteriales make an order within the Department of Bacteroidetes. She is the only order of the class Flavobacteriia.

Appearance

The Gram test is negative. The cells are rod-shaped, some species form filaments of several cells. The latter include, for example, the taffensis asked to Cryomorphaceae kind Fluviicola. Spores are not formed. Types of families Cryomophaceae and Flavobacteriaceae are aerobic or facultative anaerobic, flagella are not present. Some species can move sliding. The type Blattabacterium cuenoti forms a symbiotic relationship with cockroaches and the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis. Blattabacterium cuenoti was found exclusively within these insects and is vital for the insects.

Metabolism

All species are chemo- organotroph, the metabolism is either breathing or, as in some types of Flavobacteriaceae, the fermentation.

System

To order Flavobacteriales include the following families ::

• Blattabacteriaceae
• Cryomorphaceae
• Flavobacteriaceae