| Arthrobacter | |
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| Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus | |
Scientific classification 
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| 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)
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Arthrobacter (from the Greek, "jointed small stick”) 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.