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| Metabacterium polyspora Chatton & Perard 1913
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Metabacterium polyspora is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs.3 This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium fishelsoni.4
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- Chatton E, Perard C (1913). "Schizophytes du caecum du cobaye. II. Metabacterium polyspora n. g., n. s.". C.R. Hebd. Soc. Biol. 74 (156): 1232–34.
- Angert ER, Brook AE, Pace NR (1996). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Metabacterium polyspora: Clues to the Evolutionary Origin of Daughter Cell Production in Epulopiscium Species, the Largest Bacteria". J Bacteriol. 178 (5): 1451–56. doi:10.1128/jb.178.5.1451-1456.1996. PMC 177821. PMID 8631724.