Fictibacillus arsenicus explained

Fictibacillus arsenicus, also known as Bacillus arsenicus,^[1] is a bacterium.^[2] It is Gram-positive, motile, endospore-forming, rod-shaped and arsenic-resistant. Its type strain is Con a/3^T (=MTCC 4380^T=DSM 15822^T=JCM 12167^T).

Further reading

• Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
• Book: Ljungdahl, Lars G. . Biochemistry and physiology of anaerobic bacteria . Springer . Berlin . 2003 . 0-387-95592-5 .
• Berkeley, Roger, et al., eds. Applications and systematics of bacillus and relatives. Wiley. com, 2008.

External links

• Type strain of Fictibacillus arsenicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Glaeser SP, Dott W, Busse HJ, Kämpfer P . Fictibacillus phosphorivorans gen. nov. sp. nov. and proposal to reclassify Bacillus arsenicus, Bacillus barbaricus, Bacillus macauensis, Bacillus nanhaiensis, Bacillus rigui, Bacillus solisalsi and B. gelatini into the genus Fictibacillus . . 63. Pt 8. 2934–44. January 2013 . 23355698 . 10.1099/ijs.0.049171-0 . 2013-07-24.
2. Shivaji. S.. Bacillus arsenicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium isolated from a siderite concretion in West Bengal, India. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55. 3. 2005. 1123–1127. 1466-5026. 10.1099/ijs.0.63476-0. 15879243. free.