Table 1. Criteria for macroscopic characteristics used to screen for cellulose-degrading myxobacteria

Medium	Criteria
CY	Yellow, yellow-orange, orange, brown, and slimy colonies.
CMC	Viscous colonies with cellulose degradation.
VY/2	Yellow, orange, brown, and viscous colonies with their edges, which were branched or wavy, and fruiting bodies would appear 10 days later on.

CMC, carboxymethyl cellulose.