Firmicutes

Firmicutes
	Bacillus subtilis, Gram-stained
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
(unranked):	Terrabacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes; Gibbons and Murray 1978, Murray, 1984
Clesses
	Bacilli Bacillales; Lactobacillales; Mollicutes; Erysipelotrichia Erysipelotrichales; ; ; Clostridia Clostridiales; Halanaerobiales; Natranaerobiales; Thermoanaerobacterales; Negativicutes Selenomonadales; ; ; Thermolithobacteria;
Synonyms
	Endospora; Endobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002; "Endobacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1998; "Mollifirmicutes"; Mollicutes Edward & Freundt 1967; Mollicutaeota Oren et al. 2015; "Halanaerobiaeota"; Tenericutes Murray 1984;

The Firmicutes (Laitin: firmus, strang, an cutis, skin, referrin tae the cell wall) are a phylum o bacteria, maist o which hae Gram-positive cell wall structur.^[3]

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ Gibbons, N. E. & Murray, R. G. E. 1978. Proposals concerning the higher taxa of bacteria. Int J Syst Bacteriol 28:1–6, (PDF)
↑ Murray, R. G. E. (1984). The higher taxa, or, a place for everything...?. In: N. R. Krieg & J. G. Holt (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, p. 31–34.
↑ "Firmicutes" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary