Talk:Arthrobacter

Mav, I'm entirely aware that the blank slot in the table was intended for a future image. However, on my machine at least, it makes the table look very awkward. Given how long it will be before we have images for many things (and that it is entirely reasonable that we should not have images for everything), wouldn't it make more sense to leave the table in a form which looks better, and add the row when we add the image? -JG


 * IMO, no. Most writers have a hard enough time with HTML as it is so keeping the empty cell makes things that much easier for them. This is also important due to the fact that each table is potentially a template for many others. Hm. An HTML comment in the empty cell will even be better (indicating the exact place where the image should go). In my browser there is a thick blank line where the cell is but this doesn't happen for over 90% of the people reading this page (since it looks like there isn't a cell at all in IE). This, IMO, is a small price to pay for making things easier for the person who will eventually add the photo. And it might even be a good thing to have things a bit non-purty for some other people to act as a reminder that this article needs a micrograph. --mav

10% of our readership is hopefully more than the one person who will end up adding a picture. I'd imagine that if they can figure out how to add images, they can figure out how to insert them in the table, especially since they'll probably add more than one, and have a number of samples to work off of. If not, we have a number of people who don't mind helping. If you insist on having some sort of guide for the table tags already in place, maybe they could be commented out?

Arthrobacter Flashcard

1) Inoculum source

2) Enrichment strategy

3) Microscopic appearance

4) Gram reaction, respiration

5) Colony appearance

6) Other special properties

1) soil

2) mineral salts pyridone broth, 20ªC

3) log phase rods, stat. phase cocci

4) +, obligate aerobes

5) greenish metalic in center

6) snapping division (outer cell wall rupture), pyridone as C source, cocci resistant to desication & starvation, Induction (rods/cocci), Bacillary (motile rods), Reversion (rods break into cocci)

Life Cycle?
Is there any reason to leave the Life Cycle section in the article? It looks like someone wanted to make a flowchart or table out of it, but it just looks sloppy now. I'm removing the section, but here is what it consisted of:

"Induction phase (rods and cocci are mixed), Bacillary phase (motile rods predominate during exponential growth), Reversion phase (rods break into cocci) -> Induction..."

It may be interesting to make this into a sort of flow chart that could be applied to other bacteria pages. Opinions?

Vaihead (talk) 22:48, 11 December 2009 (UTC)