''Turicibacter'' is a genus in the

Bacillota The Bacillota (synonym Firmicutes) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have gram-positive cell wall structure. The renaming of phyla such as Firmicutes in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earl ...

phylum of bacteria that has most commonly been found in the guts of animals. The genus is named after the city in which it was first isolated, Zurich (Latin = Turicum), Switzerland.

Phylogeny

The position of ''Turicibacter'' within the

could not be resolved using 16S rRNA gene-based analyses. However, it was tentatively placed in the class

Bacilli Bacilli is a taxonomic class of bacteria that includes two orders, Bacillales and Lactobacillales, which contain several well-known pathogens such as ''Bacillus anthracis'' (the cause of anthrax). ''Bacilli'' are almost exclusively gram-positi ...

, then the class Erysipelotrichia. In a tree built using a concatenated protein alignment containing data from two draft ''Turicibacter'' genomes, the group was placed at the base of the class

. Later analyses that also included amino acid sequences predicted by a complete ''Turicibacter'' genome came to the same conclusion.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q24892371 Bacteria genera