Anaerobacter

Taxobox
color = lightgrey
name = "Anaerobacter"
domain = Bacteria
phylum = Firmicutes
classis = Clostridia
ordo = Clostridiales
familia = Clostridiaceae
genus = "Anaerobacter"

Anaerobacter are a genus of Gram-positive bacteria related to "Clostridium". They are anaerobic chemotrophs and are unusual spore-formers as they produce more than one spore per bacterial cell (up to five spores). [cite journal | author = Siunov A, Nikitin D, Suzina N, Dmitriev V, Kuzmin N, Duda V | title = Phylogenetic status of Anaerobacter polyendosporus, an anaerobic, polysporogenic bacterium. | url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/49/3/1119.pdf | journal = Int J Syst Bacteriol | volume = 49 Pt 3 | issue = | pages = 1119–24 | year = | pmid = 10425769] They fix nitrogen. G+C content 29. [cite book | author = Madigan M; Martinko J (editors). | title = Brock Biology of Microorganisms | edition = 11th ed. | publisher = Prentice Hall | year = 2005 | id = ISBN 0-13-144329-1 ]

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