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{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}
{{Taxobox
| color = lightgrey
| domain = [[Biology:Bacteria|Bacteria]]
| phylum = [[Biology:Bacillota|Bacillota]]
| classis = [[Biology:Clostridia|Clostridia]]
| ordo = Eubacteriales
| familia = ''[[Biology:Incertae sedis|incertae sedis]]''
| genus = '''''Metabacterium'''''
| species = '''''M. polyspora'''''
| binomial = ''Metabacterium polyspora''
| binomial_authority = Chatton and Perard, 1913
}}

'''''Metabacterium polyspora''''' is an unusual multiple [[Biology:Endospore|endospore-producing]] [[Biology:Bacteria|bacterium]] isolated from the [[Biology:Cecum|cecum]] of guinea pigs.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Chatton E, Perard C | title = Schizophytes du caecum du cobaye. II. Metabacterium polyspora n. g., n. s. | journal = C.R. Hebd. Soc. Biol. | volume = 74 | issue = 156 | pages = 1232–34 | year = 1913 }}</ref> This bacterium is physically similar to the [[Biology:Phylogenetics|phylogenetically]] related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont ''[[Biology:Epulopiscium fishelsoni|Epulopiscium fishelsoni]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Angert ER, Brook AE, Pace NR | title = Phylogenetic Analysis of Metabacterium polyspora: Clues to the Evolutionary Origin of Daughter Cell Production in Epulopiscium Species, the Largest Bacteria| url= | journal = J Bacteriol | volume = 178 | issue = 5| pages = 1451–56 | year = 1996 | doi = 10.1128/jb.178.5.1451-1456.1996| pmid = 8631724 | pmc = 177821 }}</ref>

== References ==
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==Further reading==
{{cite journal|last1=Ward|first1=Rebekah J.|title=DNA replication during endospore development in Metabacterium polyspora|journal=Molecular Microbiology|date=March 2008|volume=67|issue=6|pages=1360–1370|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06129.x|pmid=18284580|s2cid=28892318 }}

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[[Category:Bacteria genera]]



{{Sourceattribution|Metabacterium}}