Gelria (bacterium)

Gelria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Clostridia
Order: Thermoanaerobacterales
Family: Thermoanaerobacteraceae
Genus: Gelria
Plugge et al. 2002
Species

Gelria glutamica[1]

Gelria is a thermophilic, anaerobic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading, endospore-forming bacterial genus in the family Thermoanaerobacteraceae.

The name of the genus comes from Gelre (present province of Gelderland), one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands.

  1. ^ Plugge, Caroline M.; Balk, Melike; Zoetendal, Erwin G.; Stams, Alfons J M. (2002). "Gelria glutamica gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic, obligately syntrophic, glutamate-degrading anaerobe". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 52 (2): 401–407. doi:10.1099/00207713-52-2-401. PMID 11931148.