Acidaminococcus
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| Genus: | Acidaminococcus
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| A. fermentans | |
Acidaminococcus is a genus in the phylum Firmicutes (Bacteria), whose members are anaerobic diplococci that can use amino acids as the sole energy source for growth.[1] Like other members of the class Negativicutes, they are gram-negative, despite being Firmicutes, which are normally gram-positive.
Etymology
The name Acidaminococcus derives from:
New Latin noun acidum (from Latin adjective acidus, sour), an acid; New Latin adjective aminus, amino; New Latin masculine gender noun coccus (from Greek masculine gender noun kokkos (κόκκος), grain, seed), coccus-shaped; New Latin masculine gender noun Acidaminococcus, the amino acid coccus.[2]
Species
The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]
- A. fermentans ( Rogosa 1969 emend. Jumas-Bilak et al. 2007, species. (Type species of the genus).; Latin participle adjective fermentans, fermenting.)[3]
- A. intestini ( Jumas-Bilak et al. 2007, ; Latin genitive case noun intestini, of the intestine.)[4]
See also
References
- ^ Classification of Genera AC in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
- ^ a b Acidaminococcus in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
- ^ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/30/1/225
- ^ Jumas-Bilak, E.; Carlier, J. -P.; Jean-Pierre, H.; Mory, F.; Teyssier, C.; Gay, B.; Campos, J.; Marchandin, H. (2007). "Acidaminococcus intestini sp. Nov., isolated from human clinical samples". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (10): 2314–2319. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64883-0.
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