firmicute

English

A firmicute, Clostridium perfringens

Noun

firmicute (plural firmicutes)

1. Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
   • 2007, M. Madan Babu, S. Balaji, L. Aravind, “General Trends in the Evolution of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”, in Jean-Nicolas Volff, editor, Gene and Protein Evolution, page 72:

     In contrast, all the interactions in this motif are conserved in several distantly related genomes such as the beta-proteobacterium B. pertussis and the firmicute D. hafniense (fig. 2b).

   • 2008, J. P. W. Young, “Chapter 14: The Phylogeny and Evolution of Nitrogenases”, in Rafael Palacios, William Edward Newton, editors, Genomes and Genomics of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms, page 227:

     Type C ("clostridial") is found in the firmicute bacterium Clostridium, the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium, and also in the archaeon Methanosarcina.

   • 2013, Dietrich H. Nies, 5: RND Efflux Pumps for Metal Cations, Edward W. Yu, Qijing Zhang, Melissa H. Brown, Stephanie Baugh (editors), Microbial Efflux Pumps: Current Research, page 110,

     Exceptions were sequence CRE-06266 from the worm Caenorhabditis remanei and ZP_01666833 from the Gram-positive firmicute Thermosinus carboxidovorans.