Metabacterium
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| Metabacterium polyspora Chatton & Perard 1913
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Metabacterium polyspora is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs.[3] This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium fishelsoni.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ J.P. Euzéby. "Metabacterium". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ Sayers; et al. "Metabacterium". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
[edit]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.
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