Bacillus horikoshii

Summary

Bacillus horikoshii is a facultative anaerobe bacterium.[1] It is a gram positive, alkaliphilic and alkalitolerant, aerobic endospore-forming bacteria.

Bacillus horikoshii
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B. horikoshii
Binomial name
Bacillus horikoshii
Nielsen et al. 1995

This species has been recently transferred into the genus Sutcliffiella.[2] The correct nomenclature is Sutcliffiella horikoshii.

References edit

  1. ^ Nielsen, P.; Fritze, D.; Priest, F. G. (1995). "Phenetic diversity of alkaliphilic Bacillus strains: proposal for nine new species". Microbiology. 141 (7): 1745–1761. doi:10.1099/13500872-141-7-1745. ISSN 1350-0872.
  2. ^ Gupta, Radhey S.; Patel, Sudip; Saini, Navneet; Chen, Shu (2020-11-01). "Robust demarcation of 17 distinct Bacillus species clades, proposed as novel Bacillaceae genera, by phylogenomics and comparative genomic analyses: description of Robertmurraya kyonggiensis sp. nov. and proposal for an emended genus Bacillus limiting it only to the members of the Subtilis and Cereus clades of species". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5753–5798. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004475. ISSN 1466-5026.

External links edit

  • UniProt entry
  • Type strain of Bacillus horikoshii at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase