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A family of Gram-positive obligate anaerobes (formerly classified as the genus Oscillospira, now reclassified into Oscillibacter and related genera within Oscillospiraceae) that serve as keystone butyrate producers in the healthy human distal colonic microbiota (Konikof…
A Gram-positive, obligate anaerobic genus within the Firmicutes phylum (family Oscillospiraceae or Ruminococcaceae depending on classification) that possesses a unique metabolic capability: butyrate production from lysine fermentation rather than from dietary fiber. Thi…
Oscillibacter is a genus of Gram-negative, strictly anaerobic, motile bacteria within the family Oscillospiraceae (phylum Firmicutes). The type species, Oscillibacter valericigenes, was first isolated from the alimentary tract of a Japanese freshwater fish and named for…