Biology:Mucispirillum

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Short description: Genus of bacteria

Mucispirillum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Deferribacterota
Class: Deferribacteres
Order: Deferribacterales
Family: Deferribacteraceae
Genus: Mucispirillum
Robertson et al. 2005[1]
Type species
Mucispirillum schaedleri
Robertson et al. 2005
Species
  • "Ca. M. faecigallinarum"
  • M. schaedleri

Mucispirillum is a genus in the phylum Deferribacterota (Bacteria). It is represented by the single species Mucispirillum schaedleri|. It has been found in the intestinal tract of some rodents and considered a commensal with some association to disease. This species has been found in cockroaches mice, turkeys, dogs, pigs, goats, termites, and sometimes humans. It is anaerobic and does not form spores. It is motile, flagellated and thought to have the ability to move through mucus.[2]

Etymology

The name Mucispirillum derives from Latin noun mucus, mucus; Neo-Latin dim. neuter gender noun spirillum, a small spiral; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun mucispirillum, a small spiral rod of the mucus.

Species

This genus contains a single species, namely M. schaedleri (Robertson et al. 2005, (Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin genitive case noun schaedleri, of Schaedler, in honour of Russell Schaedler, active in the study of the bacteria of the intestinal tract of mammals.[3]

See also

References

  1. "Microbiology Society Journals | Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents". http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/3/1199. Retrieved 2018-04-17. 
  2. Loy, Alexander; Pfann, Carina; Steinberger, Michaela; Hanson, Buck; Herp, Simone; Brugiroux, Sandrine; Neto, João Carlos Gomes; Boekschoten, Mark V. et al. (2017-02-28). "Lifestyle and Horizontal Gene Transfer-Mediated Evolution of Mucispirillum schaedleri, a Core Member of the Murine Gut Microbiota" (in en). mSystems 2 (1): e00171–16. doi:10.1128/mSystems.00171-16. ISSN 2379-5077. PMID 28168224. 
  3. Robertson, Bronwyn R.; O'Rourke, Jani L.; Neilan, Brett A.; Vandamme, Peter; On, Stephen L. W.; Fox, James G.; Lee, Adrian (2005-05-01). "Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp. nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents" (in en). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 55 (3): 1199–1204. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63472-0. ISSN 1466-5034. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/55/3/1199. 

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