Metabacterium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Taxobox | domain = Bacteria | phylum = Bacillota | classis = Clostridia | ordo = ''incertae sedis'' | familia = ''incertae sedis'' | genus = '''''Metabacterium'''''<ref name=LPSN>{{cite web |author=J.P. Euzéby |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/Metabacterium |title=Metabacterium |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=38777&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock |title=Metabacterium |access-date=2022-09-09 |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) taxonomy database |display-authors=et al.}}</ref> | genus_authority = Chatton & Perard 1913 | type_species = ''Metabacterium polyspora'' | type_species_authority = Chatton & Perard 1913 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''M. polyspora'' }}

'''''Metabacterium polyspora''''' is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Chatton E, Perard C | title = Schizophytes du caecum du cobaye. II. Metabacterium polyspora n. g., n. s. | journal = C.R. Hebd. Soc. Biol. | volume = 74 | issue = 156 | pages = 1232–34 | year = 1913 }}</ref> This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont ''Epulopiscium fishelsoni''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Angert ER, Brook AE, Pace NR | title = Phylogenetic Analysis of Metabacterium polyspora: Clues to the Evolutionary Origin of Daughter Cell Production in Epulopiscium Species, the Largest Bacteria| url= | journal = J Bacteriol | volume = 178 | issue = 5| pages = 1451–56 | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1128/jb.178.5.1451-1456.1996| pmid = 8631724 | pmc = 177821 }}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{cite journal|last1=Ward|first1=Rebekah J.|title=DNA replication during endospore development in Metabacterium polyspora|journal=Molecular Microbiology|date=March 2008|volume=67|issue=6|pages=1360–1370|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06129.x|pmid=18284580|s2cid=28892318 }}

Category:Eubacteriales Category:Monotypic bacteria genera Category:Enigmatic bacteria taxa