Gelria (bacterium)

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Gelria
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Division:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Thermoanaerobacterales
Family:
Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus:
Gelria

et al. 2002
Species

[1]

Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.

The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.

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References[]

  1. ^ Gelria glutamica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading anaerobe. Caroline M Plugge, Melike Balk, Erwin G Zoetendal and Alfons J M Stams, IJSEM, March 2002, vol. 52, no. 2, page 401-407, [1]

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