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firmicute

firmicute noun: any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.

firmicute: any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes
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Noun

firmicute (plural firmicutes)

  1. Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
    • In contrast, all the interactions in this motif are conserved in several distantly related genomes such as the beta-proteobacterium B. pertussis and the firmicute D. hafniense (fig. 2b).2007, M. Madan Babu, S. Balaji, L. Aravind, “General Trends in the Evolution of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”, in Jean-Nicolas Volff, editor, Gene and Protein Evolution, page 72
    • Type C ("clostridial") is found in the firmicute bacterium Clostridium, the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium, and also in the archaeon Methanosarcina.2008, J. P. W. Young, “Chapter 14: The Phylogeny and Evolution of Nitrogenases”, in Rafael Palacios, William Edward Newton, editors, Genomes and Genomics of Nitrogen-fixing Organisms, page 227

Forms of firmicute

pluralfirmicutes

Origin of firmicute

Borrowed from translingual Firmicutes.

Words formed from firmicute

  • firmicutal

Questions about firmicute

What does firmicute mean?
Firmicute means any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
What part of speech is firmicute?
Firmicute is a noun.
What is the plural of firmicute?
The plural of firmicute is firmicutes.

Words near firmicute in the dictionary

  1. firmed up
  2. firmer
  3. firmers
  4. firmest
  5. firmhearted
  6. firmicute
  7. firmicutes
  8. Firmin
  9. firming
  10. firming agent
  11. firming agents

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