Bergey<U+0019>s Manualʼ of Systematic Bacteriology Volume Three TheFirmicutes /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vos, Paul. (Editor), Garrity, George M. (Editor), Jones, Dorothy. (Editor), Krieg, Noel R. (Editor), Ludwig, Wolfgang. (Editor), Rainey, Fred A. (Editor), Schleifer, Karl-Heinz. (Editor), Whitman, William B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Medicine.; Microbiology.; Bacteriology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; Biomedicine general.; Medical Microbiology.; Applied Microbiology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68489-5
• Physical Description: XXVI, 1450p. 393 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780387684895

Includes a revised taxonomic outline for the Firmicutes based upon the SILVA project as well as a description of more than 1346 species and 235 genera belonging to the phylum Firmicutes, which are also called the low mol% G+C Gram positive prokaryotes. Major taxa to be included are Alicyclobacillus, Bacillus, Clostridium, Enterococcus, Erysipelothrix, Eubacterium, Haloanaerobium, Heliobacterium, Lachnospira, Lactobacillus, Leuconostoc, Listeria, Paenibacillus, Peptococcus, Ruminococcus, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Syntrophomonas, Thermoactinomyces, Thermoanaerobacter, Veillonella and 229 additional genera. Includes many medically and industrially important taxa.