Gelria (bacterium)
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Clostridia |
Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
Genus: | Gelria Plugge et al. 2002 |
Species | |
Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.
See also
References
- ^ Plugge, Caroline M.; Balk, Melike; Zoetendal, Erwin G.; Stams, Alfons J M. (2002). "Gelria glutamica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading anaerobe". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (2): 401–407. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-2-401. PMID 11931148.
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