Tetragenococcus

Tetragenococcus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Enterococcaceae
Genus:	Tetragenococcus Collins et al. 1993[1]
Type species
Tetragenococcus halophilus[1]
Species
T. halophilus[1] T. koreensis[1] T. muriaticus[1] T. osmophilus[1] T. solitarius[1]

Tetragenococcus is a Gram-positive, facultatively aerobic, moderately halophilic and nonmotile bacterial genus from the family of Enterococcaceae.^[1][2][3][4]

References

1. LPSN bacterio.net
2. UniProt
3. Dicks, Leon M.T.; Holzapfel, Wilhelm. H.; Satomi, Masataka; Kimura, Bon; Fujii, Tateo (1 January 2015). "Tetragenococcus". Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00602.
4. Holzapfel, Wilhelm H.; Franz, Charles M. A. P.; Ludwig, Wolfgang; Back, Werner; Dicks, Leon M. T. (1 January 2006). "The Genera Pediococcus and Tetragenococcus". The Prokaryotes. Springer US: 229–266. doi:10.1007/0-387-30744-3_8.

Further reading

• Justé, A; Lievens, B; Frans, I; Marsh, TL; Klingeberg, M; Michiels, CW; Willems, KA (September 2008). "Genetic and physiological diversity of Tetragenococcus halophilus strains isolated from sugar- and salt-rich environments.". Microbiology (Reading, England). 154 (Pt 9): 2600–10. doi:10.1099/mic.0.2008/018168-0. PMID 18757794.
• Paul, De Vos (2009). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology. (2nd ed.). Dordrecht: Springer. ISBN 0-387-68489-1.
• Farnworth, edited by Edward R. (2008). Handbook of Fermented Functional Foods. (2nd ed.). Hoboken: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-4200-5328-0.
• Baird, edited by Janet E.L. Corry, G.D.W. Curtis, Rosamund M. (2010). Handbook of culture media for food microbiology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 1-84755-916-6.

External identifiers for Tetragenococcus
Encyclopedia of Life	98128