Clostridium paradoxum is a moderately thermophilic anaerobic alkaliphile bacteria. It is motile with 2-6 peritrichous flagella and forms round to slightly oval terminal spores. Its type strain is JW-YL-7 (DSM 7308).[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Clostridiaceae |
| Genus: | Clostridium |
| Species: | C. paradoxum
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| Clostridium paradoxum Li et al. 1993
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References
edit- ^ Li, Y.; Mandelco, L.; Wiegel, J. (1993). "Isolation and Characterization of a Moderately Thermophilic Anaerobic Alkaliphile, Clostridium paradoxum sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 43 (3): 450–460. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-3-450. ISSN 0020-7713.
Further reading
edit- Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL, Janssen PH, Hippe H, Stackebrandt E (1996). "Clostridium paradoxum DSM 7308T contains multiple 16S rRNA genes with heterogeneous intervening sequences". Microbiology. 142 (8): 2087–95. doi:10.1099/13500872-142-8-2087. PMID 8760921.
- Cook, Gregory M., et al. "The Intracellular pH of Clostridium paradoxum, an Anaerobic, Alkaliphilic, and Thermophilic Bacterium." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 62.12 (1996): 4576–4579.
- Ferguson, S. A.; Keis, S.; Cook, G. M. (2006). "Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of a Na+-Translocating F1Fo-ATPase from the Thermoalkaliphilic Bacterium Clostridium paradoxum". Journal of Bacteriology. 188 (14): 5045–5054. doi:10.1128/JB.00128-06. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 1539966. PMID 16816177.
External links
edit- "Clostridium paradoxum". The Encyclopedia of Life.
- LPSN
- Type strain of Clostridium paradoxum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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