Megasphaera

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Megasphaera
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Megasphaera

Rogosa 1971
Type species
Megasphaera elsdenii
(Gutierrez et al. 1959) Rogosa 1971
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Megasphaera is a genus of Bacillota bacteria classified within the class Negativicutes. [1] [2]

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This classification has been reexamined. [3] It appears that this genus is a member of the Clostridia .

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) [1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) [2]

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023 [4] [5] [6] 120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214 [7] [8] [9]
Megasphaera

M. micronuciformisMarchandin et al. 2003

M. hutchinsoniSrinivasan et al. 2021

M. lornaeSrinivasan et al. 2021

M. massiliensisPadmanabhan et al. 2016

M. elsdenii(Gutierrez et al. 1959) Rogosa 1971

M. indicaLanjekar et al. 2014

M. hexanoicaJeon et al. 2017

M. hominisLiu et al. 2022

M. paucivoransJuvonen and Suihko 2006

M. sueciensisJuvonen and Suihko 2006

M. cerevisiaeEngelmann and Weiss 1986

M. vaginalisSrinivasan et al. 2021 non Bordigoni et al. 2020

Anaeroglobus geminatusCarlier et al. 2002

"M. butyrica" Hitch et al. 2021

M. stantoniiMaki & Looft 2018

Megasphaera paucivorans

Anaeroglobus

Megasphaera vaginalis

"Colibacter massiliensis" Mailhe et al. 2017

Megasphaera micronuciformis

Anaeroglobus geminatus

" Caecibacter "

"Megasphaera hominis"

"Caecibacter massiliensis" Ricaboni et al. 2017
(incl. Megasphaera hexanoica)

Megasphaera

M. hutchinsoni

M. lornae

M. cerevisiae

M. stantonii

M. elsdenii

M. massiliensis

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References

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