Sporing X-Philes
Endospore-Forming Bacteria
Introduction
Bacterial endospores tend to give the bacteria capable of producing them polyextremotolerance. Endospores are known for being able to survive extremely high doses of radiation, vacuum dessication, extreme heat and cold, lack of nutrients, and in some cases even the passage of hundreds of millions of years (for example, Bacillus marismortui strain 2-9-3 was revived by scientists from 250-million-year-old spores (Vreeland, 2000); for comparison, the first dinosaurs began appearing about 220 MYA — 30 million years later).
List of Endospore-Forming Bacteria
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| Genus & Species | Source |
|---|---|
| Bacillus acidicola | Albert &al. 2005 |
| Bacillus aerius | Shivaji &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus aerophilus | Shivaji &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus albus | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus altitudinis | Shivaji &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus alveayuensis | Bae &al., 2005 |
| Bacillus amyloliquefaciens | (Fukumoto, 1943) Priest &al., 1987 |
| Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax) | Cohn, 1872 |
| Bacillus aquiflavi | Xie &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus atrophaeus | Nakamura, 1989 |
| Bacillus australimaris | Liu &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus badius | Batchelor, 1919 |
| Bacillus benzoevorans | Pichinoty &al., 1987 |
| Bacillus cabrialesii | de Los Santos Villalobos &al., 2019 |
| Bacillus canaveralius | Newcombe &al., 2009 |
| Bacillus capparidis | Wang &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus cereus | Frankland & Frankland, 1887 |
| Bacillus chungangensis | Cho &al., 2010 |
| Bacillus cahuilensisereus | Cerritos &al., 2008 |
| Bacillus cytotoxicus | Guinebretiere &al., 2013 |
| Bacillus decisifrondis | Zhang &al., 2007 |
| Bacillus ectoiniformans | Zhu &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus enclensis | Dastager &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus fengquiuensis | Zhao &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus fungorum | Liu &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus glycinifermentans | Kim &al., 2015 |
| Bacillus gobiensisectoiniformans | Liu &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus halotolerans | (Delaporte & Sasson, 1967) Tindall &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus heynesii | Dunlap &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus horti | Yumoto &al., 1998 |
| Bacillus inaquosorum | (Rooney &al., 2009) Dunlap &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus infantis | Ko &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus infernus | Boone &al., 1995 |
| Bacillus isabeliae | Albuquerque &al., 2008 |
| Bacillus kexueae | Sun &al., 2018 |
| Bacillus licheniformis | (Weigmann, 1898) Chester, 1901 |
| Bacillus luti | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus manusensis | Sun &al., 2018 |
| Bacillus marinisedimentorum | Guo &al., 2018 |
| Bacillus mesophilus | Manickam &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus methanolicus | Arfman &al., 1992 |
| Bacillus mobilis | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus mojavensis | Roberts &al., 1994 |
| Bacillus mycoides | Flugge &al., 1886 |
| Bacillus nakamurai | Dunlap &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus ndiopicus | Lo &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus nitratireducens | Guo &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus oleivorans | Azmatunnisa &al., 2015 |
| Bacillus pacificus | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus pakistanensis | Roohi &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus paralicheniformis | Dunlap &al., 2015 |
| Bacillus paramycoides | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus paranthracis | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus pervagus | Kosowski &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus priscicola | Lee &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus proteolyticus | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus pseudomycoides | Nakamura, 2018 |
| Bacillus pumilus | Meyer & Gottheil, 1901 |
| Bacillus safensis | Satomi &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus salacetis | Daroonpunt &al., 2019 |
| Bacillus salinus | Kang &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus salitolerans | Zhang &al., 2015 |
| Bacillus seohaeanensis | Lee &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus siamensis | Sumpavapol &al., 2010 |
| Bacillus shivajii | Kumar &al., 2018 |
| Bacillus smithii | Nakamura &al., 1988 |
| Bacillus solimangrovi | Lee &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus songklensis | Kang &al., 2013 |
| Bacillus sonoresnis | Palmisano &al., 2001 |
| Bacillus spizizenii | (Nakamura &al., 1999) Dunlap &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus spongiae | Lee &al., 2019 |
| Bacillus stercoris | (Adelskov & Patel, 2017) Dunlap &al., 2020 |
| Bacillus stratosphericus | Shivaji &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus subtilis | (Ehrenberg 1835) Cohn 1872 |
| Bacillus swezeyi | Dunlap &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus taeanensis | Lim &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus tamaricis | Zhang &al., 2018 |
| Bacillus tequilensis | Gatson &al., 2006 |
| Bacillus thermocloacae | Demharter & Hensel, 1989 |
| Bacillus thermotolerans | Yang &al., 2013 |
| Bacillus thuringiensis | Burlinger, 1915 |
| Bacillus tianshenii | Jiang &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus toyonensis | Jimenez &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus tropicus | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus vallismortis | Roberts &al., 1996 |
| Bacillus velezensis | Ruis-Garcia &al., 2005 |
| Bacillus wiedmannii | Miller &al., 2016 |
| Bacillus wudalienchiensis | Liu &al., 2017 |
| Bacillus xiamenensis | Lai &al., 2014 |
| Bacillus xiapuensis | Liu &al., 2019 |
| Bacillus zhangzhouensis | Liu &al., 2016 |
| Clostridium aceticum | Wieringa, 1940 |
| Clostridium acetireducens | Orlygsson &al., 1996 |
| Clostridium acetobutylicum | McCoy &al., 1926 |
| Clostridium acidisoli | Kuhner &al., 2000 |
| Clostridium aestuarii | Kim &al., 2007 |
| Clostridium akagii | Kuhner &al., 2000 |
| Clostridium algidicarnis | Lawson &al., 1995 |
| Clostridium algifaecis | Wu &al., 2014 |
| Clostridium algoriphilum | Shcherbakova &al., 2010 |
| Clostridium amazonense | O’Neal &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium aminophilum | Paster &al., 1993 |
| Clostridium amylolyticum | Song & Dong, 2008 |
| Clostridium arbusti | Jung &al., 2010 |
| Clostridium arcticum | Jordan & McNicol, 1979 |
| Clostridium argentinense | Suen &al., 1988 |
| Clostridium atrophaeus | Nakamura, 1989 |
| Clostridium aurantibutyricum | Hellinger, 1944 |
| Clostridium baratii | Prevot, 1938 |
| Clostridium beihaiense | Dong &al., 2018 |
| Clostridium beijerinckii | Donker, 1926 |
| Clostridium bornimense | Hahnke &al., 2014 |
| Clostridium botulinum | van Ermengem, 1896 |
| Clostridium bovifaecis | Zhu &al., 2018 |
| Clostridium bowmanii | Spring &al., 2003 |
| Clostridium budayi | Le Blaye, 1914 |
| Clostridium butyricum | Prazmowski, 1880 |
| Clostridium cadaveris | Klein, 1899 |
| Clostridium carboxidivorans | Liou &al., 2005 |
| Clostridium carnis | Klein, 1904 |
| Clostridium cavendishii | Bowman &al., 2010 |
| Clostridium celatum | Hauschild & Holdeman, 1974 |
| Clostridium cellulosi | He &al., 1991 |
| Clostridium cellulovorans | Sleat &al., 1985 |
| Clostridium chartatabidum | Kelly &al., 1996 |
| Clostridium chauvoei | Arloing &al., 1887 |
| Clostridium chromiireducens | Inglett, 2011 |
| Clostridium clostridioforme | Burri & Ankersmit, 1906 |
| Clostridium cochlearium | Douglas, 1919 |
| Clostridium cocleatum | Kaneuchi &al., 1979 |
| Clostridium colicanis | Greetham &al., 2003 |
| Clostridium colinum | Berkhoff &al., 1974 |
| Clostridium collagenovorans | Jain & Zeikus, 1988 |
| Clostridium combesii | Prevot & Laplanche, 1947 |
| Clostridium composti | Shin &al., 2018 |
| Clostridium cylindrosporum | Barker & Beck, 1942 |
| Clostridium disporicum | Horn, 1987 |
| Clostridium drakei | Liou &al., 2005 |
| Clostridium estertheticum | Collins &al., 1993 |
| Clostridium fallax | Weinberg & Seguin, 1915 |
| Clostridium felsineum | Carbone & Tombolato, 1917 |
| Clostridium fermenticellae | Xu &al., 2019 |
| Clostridium fessum | Seo &al., 2020 |
| Clostridium fimetarium | Kotsyurbenko &al., 1997 |
| Clostridium formicaceticum | Andreesen &al., 1970 |
| Clostridium frigidicarnus | Broda &al., 1999 |
| Clostridium frigoris | Spring &al., 2003 |
| Clostridium ganghwense | Kim &al., 2006 |
| Clostridium gasigenes | Broda &al., 2000 |
| Clostridium granti | Mountfort &al., 1996 |
| Clostridium guangxiense | Zhao &al., 2017 |
| Clostridium haemolyticum | Hall, 1929 |
| Clostridium halophilum | Fendrich &al., 1991 |
| Clostridium herbivorans | Varel &al., 1995 |
| Clostridium hiranonis | Kitahara &al., 2001 |
| Clostridium histolyticum
(not very thermotolerant; OGT=60°C) |
Weinberg & Seguin, 1916 |
| Clostridium homopropionicum | Dorner & Schink, 1991 |
| Clostridium huakuii | Ruan &al., 2014 |
| Clostridium hydrogeniformans | Bowman &al., 2010 |
| Clostridium hylemonae | Kitahara &al., 2000 |
| Clostridium indicum
(extremotolerant mesophile, OGT=37°C) |
Gundawar &al., 2019 |
| Clostridium innocuum | Smith & King, 1962 |
| Clostridium intestinale | Lee &al., 1989 |
| Clostridium irregulare | Choukevitch, 1911 |
| Clostridium isatidis | Padden &al., 1999 |
| Clostridium jeddahense | Lagier &al., 2016 |
| Clostridium kluyveri | Barker & Taha, 1942 |
| Clostridium lacusfryxellense | Spring &al., 2003 |
| Clostridium leptum | Moore &al., 1976 |
| Clostridium liquoris | Yin &al., 2016 |
| Clostridium ljungdahlii | Tanner &al., 1993 |
| Clostridium lundense | Cirne &al., 2006 |
| Clostridium luticellarii | Wang &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium magnum | Schink, 1984 |
| Clostridium malenominatum | Weinberg &al., 1937 |
| Clostridium methoxybenzovorans | Mechichi &al., 1999 |
| Clostridium methylpentosum | Himelbloom & Canale-Parola, 1989 |
| Clostridium moniliforme | Repaci, 1910 |
| Clostridium neonatale | Bernard &al., 2018 |
| Clostridium neuense | Zhao &al., 2017 |
| Clostridium nexile | Holdeman & Moore, 1974 |
| Clostridium nitritogenes | Prevot, 1940 |
| Clostridium nitrophenolicum | Suresh &al., 2007 |
| Clostridium novyi | Migula, 1900 |
| Clostridium oceanicum | Smith, 1970 |
| Clostridium oryzae | Horino &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium pabulibutyricum | Kobayashi &al., 2017 |
| Clostridium paradoxum | Li &al., 1993 |
| Clostridium paraputrificum | Bienstock, 1906 |
| Clostridium pascui | Wilde &al., 1997 |
| Clostridium pasteurianum | Winogradsky, 1985 |
| Clostridium peptidovorans | Mechichi &al., 2000 |
| Clostridium perfringens
(formerly C. welchii) |
Veillon & Zuber, 1898 |
| Clostridium phytofermentans | Warnick &al., 2002 |
| Clostridium piliforme | Tyzzer, 1917 |
| Clostridium polyendosporum | Duda &al., 1996 |
| Clostridium polysaccharolyticum | van Glyswyk, 1981 |
| Clostridium populeti | Sleat & Mah, 1985 |
| Clostridium prolinivorans | Huang &al., 2020 |
| Clostridium psychrophilum | Spring &al., 2003 |
| Clostridium punense | Lanjekar &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium puniceam | Lund &al., 1981 |
| Clostridium putrefaciens | McBryde, 1911 |
| Clostridium quinii | Svensson &al., 1995 |
| Clostridium ramosum | Veillon & Zuber, 1898 |
| Clostridium roseum | McCoy & McClung, 1935 |
| Clostridium saccharobutylicum | Kleis &al., 2001 |
| Clostridium saccharogumia | Clavel &al., 2007 |
| Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum | Kleis &al., 2001 |
| Clostridium sardiniense
(aka Clostridium absonum |
Prevot, 1938 |
| Clostridium sartagoforme | Partansky & Henry, 1935 |
| Clostridium saudiense | Angelakis &al., 2016 |
| Clostridium scidens | Morris &al., 1985 |
| Clostridium senagelense | Mishra &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium septicum | Macé, 1889 |
| Clostridium spiroforme | Kaneuchi &al., 1979 |
| Clostridium sporogenes | Metchnikoff, 1908 |
| Clostridium sporosphaeroides | Soriano & Soriano, 1948 |
| Clostridium subterminale | Hall & Whitehead, 1927 |
| Clostridium sulfidigenes | Sallam & Steinbuchel, 2009 |
| Clostridium swellfunianum | Liu &al., 2015 |
| Clostridium symbiosum | Stevens, 1956 |
| Clostridium tagluense | Suetin &al., 2009 |
| Clostridium tarantellae | (Udey &al., 1977) Lawson & Rainey, 2016 |
| Clostridium tepidiprofundi | Slobodkina &al., 2008 |
| Clostridium tepidum | Dobritsa &al., 2017 |
| Clostridium tertium | (Henry, 1917) Bergey &al., 1923 |
| Clostridium tetani | (Flugge, 1886) Bergey &al., 1923 |
| Clostridium tetanomorphum | (Bulloch &al., 1919) Wilde &al., 1989 |
| Clostridium thermarum | Liu &al., 2021 |
| Clostridium thermoalcaliphilum | Li &al., 1994 |
| Clostridium thermobutyricum | Weigel &al., 1989 |
| Clostridium thermopalmarium | Soh &al., 1991 |
| Clostridium thermopapyrolyticum | Mendez &al., 1991 |
| Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum | McClung, 1935 |
| Clostridium thermosuccinogenes | Drent &al., 1995 |
| Clostridium thermosulfurigenes | Schink & Zeikus, 1983 |
| Clostridium thiosulfatireducens | Hernandez-Euginio &al., 2002 |
| Clostridium tyrobutyricum | van Beynum & Pette, 1935 |
| Clostridium uliginosum | Matthies &al., 2001 |
| Clostridium villosum | Love &al., 1979 |
| Clostridium vincentii | Mountfort &al., 1997 |
| Clostridium viride | Buckel &al., 1995 |
| Clostridium vulturis | Paek &al., 2015 |
| Gottschalkia acidurici
(formerly Clostridium acidurici & Bacillus acidurici) |
(Liebert, 1909) Poehlein &al., 2017 |
| Desulfotomaculum | ? |
| Sporolactobacillus | ? |
| Sporosarcina | ? |
| Thermoactinomyces | ? |
Phylogenic List of Endospore-Forming Bacteria
- Domain: Bacteria
- Phylum: Firmicutes
- Class: Bacilli
- Order: Bacillales
- Family: Bacillaceae
- Genus: Bacillus
- Class: Clostridia
- Order: Clostridiales
- Family: Clostridiaceae
- Genus: Clostridium
