''Turicibacter'' is a genus in the Bacillota 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 Bacillota could not be resolved using 16S rRNA gene-based analyses. However, it was tentatively placed in the class Bacilli, then the class

Erysipelotrichia The Erysipelotrichia are a class of bacteria of the phylum Bacillota. Species of this class are known to be common in the gut microbiome, as they have been isolated from swine manure and increase in composition of the mouse gut microbiome for mi ...

. 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 Bacilli. 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