Description of Cytophaga
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Rod-shaped or spindle-shaped, Gram-negative, capable of digesting polysaccharides - substrates include cellulose or agar, without microcysts. Aerobic, mostly free-living, may glide. The type species is Cytophaga hutchinsonii Winogradsky 1929 WINOGRADSKY, 1929. Études sur la microbiologie du sol - sur la dégradation de la cellulose dans le sol. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris), 43, 549-633.
