Moorella (bacterium)
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Not to be confused with Moorella (fungus) or Moorella (wasp).
Moorella is a genus of bacteria belonging to the phylum Bacillota.[2]
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Order: | Moorellales |
Family: | Moorellaceae |
Genus: | Moorella Collins et al. 1994 non Rao & Rao 1964[1] |
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Moorella thermoacetica (Fontaine et al. 1942) Collins et al. 1994 | |
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These bacteria are thermophilic, anaerobic and endospore-forming and many species of this genus have been isolated from hot springs. Some of these species were formerly included within the genus Clostridium, but after a taxonomic rearrangement of the class Clostridia, a phylogenetically distinct genus was identified, which was named Moorella in honor of the American microbiologist W.E.C. Moore.[2]