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Trichococcus

Trichococcus is a mesophilic and psychrotolerant genus of bacteria from the family of Carnobacteriaceae. Trichococcus bacteria have the ability to utilize sugars, sugar alcohols and polysaccharides. Some species of Trichococcus species where transferred from the genera Lactosphaera and Ruminococcus.

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Trichococcus
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Lactobacillales
Family: Carnobacteriaceae
Genus: Trichococcus
Scheff et al. 19841
Type species
Trichococcus flocculiformis12
Species

T. alkaliphilus1
T. collinsii1
T. flocculiformis1
T. ilyis1
T. paludicola1
T. palustris1
T. pasteurii1
T. patagoniensis1
T. shcherbakoviae1

Synonyms

Lactosphaera

Trichococcus is a mesophilic and psychrotolerant genus of bacteria from the family of Carnobacteriaceae.3145 Trichococcus bacteria have the ability to utilize sugars, sugar alcohols and polysaccharides.6 Some species of Trichococcus species where transferred from the genera Lactosphaera and Ruminococcus.2

References

References

  1. "Genus: Trichococcus". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
  2. Pikuta, Elena V.; Hoover, Richard B. (2 May 2014). The genus Trichococcus. pp. 135–145. doi:10.1002/9781118655252.ch12. ISBN 9781118655252. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  3. "Midas Field Guide". www.midasfieldguide.org.
  4. "Trichococcus". www.uniprot.org.
  5. Parker, Charles Thomas; Wigley, Sarah; Garrity, George M. (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Taxonomy of the genus Trichococcus Scheff et al. 1984 emend. Liu et al. 2002". doi:10.1601/tx.5520. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. Vos, Paul; Garrity, George; Jones, Dorothy; Krieg, Noel R.; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Rainey, Fred A.; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz; Whitman, William B. (28 January 2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 586. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5.