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Species of bacterium
Bacillus pseudofirmus is a
facultative anaerobe bacterium.
[1] It is a
gram positive , alkaliphilic and alkalitolerant, aerobic
endospore -forming bacteria.
In 2019, it was found in a hyperalkaline spring in
Zambales (Philippines) a bacterial consortium of a strain of Bacillus pseudofirmus with
Bacillus agaradhaerens that can biodegrade
LDPE plastic.
[2]
This species has been recently transferred into the genus
Alkalihalobacillus .
[3] The correct nomenclature is Alkalihalobacillus pseudofirmus.
^ Nielsen, P.; Fritze, D.; Priest, F. G. (1995).
"Phenetic diversity of alkaliphilic Bacillus strains: proposal for nine new species" . Microbiology . 141 (7): 1745–1761.
doi :
10.1099/13500872-141-7-1745 .
ISSN
1350-0872 .
^ G. Cada, Erika Joy (June 2019).
"Enhanced in vitro biodegradation of low-density polyethylene using alkaliphilic bacterial consortium supplemented with iron oxide nanoparticles" (PDF) . Philippine Science Letters . 12 .
^ 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.
doi :
10.1099/ijsem.0.003775 .
ISSN
1466-5026 .
PMID
31617837 .