Thermoclostridium stercorarium
Species of bacterium
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Thermoclostridium stercorarium is a cellulolytic thermophilic bacterium. It is anaerobic, spore-forming and saccharoclastic, with cells being rod-shaped and 0.7 to 0.8 by 2.7 to 7.7 μm in size.[3] Its genome has been sequenced.[4]
| Thermoclostridium stercorarium | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Oscillospiraceae |
| Genus: | Thermoclostridium |
| Species: | T. stercorarium |
| Binomial name | |
| Thermoclostridium stercorarium (Madden 1983) Zhang et al. 2018[1] | |
| Type strain | |
| DSM 19027, EBR596, NBRC 102590[2] | |
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