Filobacillus

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Filobacillus | authority = Schlesner et al. 2001<ref name=LPSN>{{cite web |author=J.P. Euzéby |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/filobacillus |title=Filobacillus |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}</ref><ref name=NCBI>{{cite web |author=Sayers |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=160794&lvl=3&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=2&unlock |title=Filobacillus |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}</ref> | type_species = ''Filobacillus milosensis'' | type_species_authority = corrig. Schlesner et al. 2001 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''F. milosensis'' }}

'''''Filobacillus''''' is a genus of bacteria within the phylum Bacillota. It contains the type and only species, ''Filobacillus milensis'',<ref name=LPSN></ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Schlesner|first=H|author2=Lawson, PA |author3=Collins, MD |author4=Weiss, N |author5=Wehmeyer, U |author6=Völker, H |author7= Thomm, M |title=Filobacillus milensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new halophilic spore-forming bacterium with Orn-D-Glu-type peptidoglycan.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=Mar 2001|volume=51|issue=Pt 2|pages=425–31|pmid=11324591|doi=10.1099/00207713-51-2-425 |doi-access=free}}</ref> though other species and strains have been isolated.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hiraga|first=K|author2=Nishikata, Y |author3=Namwong, S |author4=Tanasupawat, S |author5=Takada, K |author6= Oda, K |title=Purification and characterization of serine proteinase from a halophilic bacterium, Filobacillus sp. RF2-5.|journal=Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry|date=Jan 2005|volume=69|issue=1|pages=38–44|pmid=15665465 |doi=10.1271/bbb.69.38|s2cid=28879863|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Hacěne|first=Hocine|author2=Rafa, Fatima |author3=Chebhouni, Naila |author4=Boutaiba, Saad |author5=Bhatnagar, Tej |author6=Baratti, Jacques C |author7= Ollivier, Bernard |title=Biodiversity of prokaryotic microflora in El Golea Salt lake, Algerian Sahara|journal=Journal of Arid Environments|year=2004|volume=58|issue=3|pages=273–284|doi=10.1016/j.jaridenv.2003.08.006|bibcode=2004JArEn..58..273H}}</ref> Species in this genus are generally halotolerant.

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{{Bacteria classification}} {{Taxonbar|from=Q16982028}} Category:Bacteria genera Category:Bacillaceae Category:Monotypic bacteria genera {{Bacilli-stub}}