Gelria (bacterium)
Genus of bacteria
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Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Thermoanaerobacterales |
| Family: | Thermoanaerobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Gelria Plugge et al. 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Gelria glutamica Plugge et al. 2002 | |
| Species | |
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Gelria glutamica[1] | |
The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.
