Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology [electronic resource] : Volume Three The Firmicutes / edited by Paul De Vos, George M. Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Noel R. Krieg, Wolfgang Ludwig, Fred A. Rainey, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, William B. Whitman.
Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009Edition: Second EditionDescription: XXVI, 1450 p. 390 illus., 11 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780387684895
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- QH301-705

Revised road map to the phylumFirmicutes -- Taxonomic outline of the phylumFirmicutes -- Phylum XIII.Firmicutes Gibbons and Murray 1978, 5 (Firmacutes [sic] Gibbons and Murray 1978, 5).
Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the Firmicutes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 1346 species and 235 genera belonging to the phylum Firmicutes, which are also called the low mol% G+C Gram positive prokaryotes. Major taxa to be included are Alicyclobacillus, Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Erysipelothrix, Eubacterium, Haloanaerobium, Heliobacterium, Lachnospira, Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Listeria, Paenibacillus, Peptococcus, Ruminococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Syntrophomonas, Thermoactinomyces, Thermoanaerobacter, Veillonella and 229 additional genera. Includes many medically and industrially important taxa.