Metabacterium

Metabacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Bacillota
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
incertae sedis
Family:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Metabacterium

Chatton & Perard 1913
Species:
M. polyspora
Binomial name
Metabacterium polyspora
Chatton & Perard 1913

Metabacterium polyspora is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs. It is the only species in the genus Metabacterium. This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium fishelsoni.

References

  1. ↑ J.P. Euzéby. "Metabacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  2. ↑ Sayers; et al. "Metabacterium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
  3. ↑ Chatton E, Perard C (1913). "Schizophytes du caecum du cobaye. II. Metabacterium polyspora n. g., n. s.". C.R. Hebd. Soc. Biol. 74 (156): 1232–34.
  4. ↑ Angert ER, Brook AE, Pace NR (1996). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Metabacterium polyspora: Clues to the Evolutionary Origin of Daughter Cell Production in Epulopiscium Species, the Largest Bacteria". J Bacteriol. 178 (5): 1451–56. doi:10.1128/jb.178.5.1451-1456.1996. PMC 177821. PMID 8631724.

Further reading

Ward, Rebekah J. (March 2008). "DNA replication during endospore development in Metabacterium polyspora". Molecular Microbiology. 67 (6): 1360–1370. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06129.x. PMID 18284580. S2CID 28892318.