Editing Arthrobacter (section)

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = SEM of Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus.jpg
| image_caption = ''Arthrobacter chlorophenolicus''
| taxon = Arthrobacter
| type_species = ''[[Arthrobacter globiformis]]''
| type_species_authority = corrig. (Conn 1928) Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
| authority = Conn and Dimmick 1947 (Approved Lists 1980)
| synonyms =
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text.
}}

'''''Arthrobacter''''' (from the Greek, "jointed small stick”) is a [[genus]] of [[bacterium|bacteria]] that is commonly found in soil. All [[species]] in this genus are [[Gram-positive]] [[obligate aerobe]]s that are [[bacterial shape|rod]]s during [[exponential growth]] and [[bacterial shape|cocci]] in their [[Stationary phase (biology)|stationary phase]]. ''Arthrobacter'' have a distinctive method of cell division called "snapping division" or [[reversion (microbiology)|reversion]] in which the outer bacterial [[cell wall]] ruptures at a joint.