Bacillus arsenicus

Bacillus arsenicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Bacillus
Species: B. arsenicus
Binomial name
Bacillus arsenicus
Shivaji et al., 2005

Bacillus arsenicus, also known as Fictibacillus arsenicus,[1] is a bacterium.[2] It is Gram-positive, motile, endospore-forming, rod-shaped and arsenic-resistant. Its type strain is Con a/3T (=MTCC 4380T=DSM 15822T=JCM 12167T).

References

  1. Glaeser SP, Dott W, Busse HJ, Kämpfer P (January 2013). "Fictibacillus phosphorivorans gen. nov. sp. nov. and proposal to reclassify Bacillus arsenicus, Bacillus barbaricus, Bacillus macauensis, Bacillus nanhaiensis, Bacillus rigui, Bacillus solisalsi and B. gelatini into the genus Fictibacillus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 63 (Pt 8): 2934–44. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.049171-0. PMID 23355698. Retrieved 2013-07-24.
  2. Shivaji, S. (2005). "Bacillus arsenicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium isolated from a siderite concretion in West Bengal, India". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (3): 1123–1127. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63476-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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