Erysipelotrichia
| Erysipelotrichia | |
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| Cellular and colonial morphology of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. Upper row: ×1200, crystal violet; lower row: ×32 | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Ludwig, Schleifer & Whitman 2010 |
| Order: | Ludwig, Schleifer & Whitman 2010 |
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The Erysipelotrichia are a class of bacteria of the phylum Bacillota. Species of this class are known to be common in the gut microbiome, as they have been isolated from swine manure[1] and increase in composition of the mouse gut microbiome for mice switched to diets high in fat.[2]
This class has the unusual phylogenetic position (according to phylogenomic and 16S rRNA studies) of branching within Mycoplasmatota, a phylum largely without peptidoglycan cell wall. Its ability to make a peptidoglycan and sporulate, combined with this position as well as Mycoplasmotota metagenomes with similar gene contents, imply that the Mycoplasmatotal lineages have independently reduced their cell walls.[3]
- ^ Han, Il; Congeevaram, Shankar; Ki, Dong-Won; Oh, Byoung-Taek; Park, Joonhong (5 October 2010). "Bacterial community analysis of swine manure treated with autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion". Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 89 (3): 835–842. doi:10.1007/s00253-010-2893-8. PMID 20922382. S2CID 41004718.
- ^ Greiner, Thomas; Bäckhed, Fredrik (2011). "Effects of the gut microbiota on obesity and glucose homeostasis". Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism. 22 (4): 117–123. doi:10.1016/j.tem.2011.01.002. PMID 21353592. S2CID 30862135.
- ^ Field, CJ; Bowerman, KL; Hugenholtz, P (January 2024). "Multiple independent losses of sporulation and peptidoglycan in the Mycoplasmatales and related orders of the class Bacilli". Microbial Genomics. 10 (1). doi:10.1099/mgen.0.001176. PMC 10868615. PMID 38189216.