Mesobacillus boroniphilus
| Mesobacillus boroniphilus | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Bacillaceae |
| Genus: | Mesobacillus |
| Species: | M. boroniphilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Mesobacillus boroniphilus (Ahmed et al. 2007) Patel and Gupta 2020 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Mesobacillus boroniphilus is a species of Gram-positive, motile, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacterium that requires boron for growth and can tolerate high boron concentrations. It was first isolated from naturally boron-rich soil in the Hisarcık area of Kütahya Province, Turkey.[1] The specific epithet boroniphilus means "boron-loving", referring to the organism's requirement for boron and its ability to tolerate elevated boron concentrations.[2]
The type strain is T-15ZT (= DSM 17376T = IAM 15287T = ATCC BAA-1204T = JCM 21738T).[1][2]
Taxonomy
The species was originally described in 2007 as Bacillus boroniphilus. In 2020, it was transferred to the newly established genus Mesobacillus as Mesobacillus boroniphilus, based on phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses of species formerly assigned to the genus Bacillus.[3] Bacillus boroniphilus is consequently treated as the homotypic synonym and original combination of the species name.[2]
References
- 1 2 Ahmed, Iftikhar; Yokota, Akira; Fujiwara, Toru (2007). "A novel highly boron tolerant bacterium, Bacillus boroniphilus sp. nov., isolated from soil, that requires boron for its growth". Extremophiles. 11 (2): 217–224. doi:10.1007/s00792-006-0027-0. ISSN 1431-0651. PMID 17072687. S2CID 2965138.
- 1 2 3 "Species: Mesobacillus boroniphilus". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 20 August 2026.
- ↑ Patel, Sudip; Gupta, Radhey S. (2020-01-01). "A phylogenomic and comparative genomic framework for resolving the polyphyly of the genus Bacillus: Proposal for six new genera of Bacillus species, Peribacillus gen. nov., Cytobacillus gen. nov., Mesobacillus gen. nov., Neobacillus gen. nov., Metabacillus gen. nov. and Alkalihalobacillus gen. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (1): 406–438. Bibcode:2020IJSEM..70..406P. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003775. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 31617837.
Further reading
- Şen, Mustafa; Yılmaz, Ülkü; Baysal, Aslı; Akman, Süleyman; Çakar, Z. Petek (2011). "In vivo evolutionary engineering of a boron-resistant bacterium: Bacillus boroniphilus". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 99 (4): 825–835. doi:10.1007/s10482-011-9557-2. hdl:11527/2800. ISSN 0003-6072. PMID 21279440. S2CID 322928.