Talk:Firmicutes
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit ยท refresh) As far as I can tell, the bacteria discovered by IUB deep underground are simply another variety of sulfur bacteria. The fact that radioactive materials provides the energy for the breakdown of water to Hydrogen does not mean that the bacteria get energy from the radiation. The radiation simply converts the Hydrogen in the water to a useable form, which the bacteria then use to exploit the potential energy differences of. Sulfur bacteria have been found in many locations, and have been known about for years, this is simply a variety that lives deep underground. The interesting discovery in the articles referenced is that this reaction is able to support communities of bacteria deep underground, away from solar and geothermal sources of energy that could produce the same reaction. Also, in the article, I believe their is an error in classification: Bacilli, order Bacillales Bacilli, order Lactobacillales This section consists mostly of cocci, but they are listed as bacilli. Biochemstudent1 (talk) 18:23, 18 April 2008 (UTC) |
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I believe there is a minor contradiction in the scientific classification of Firmicutes. The classification box on the rights lists Firmicutes as a division under the Kingdom bacteria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_classification reserves Division for only members of the Plant Kingdom.
I believe that Firmicutes should be considered a Phylum on par with the Proteobacteria even though Phylum seems to be reserved for the Animal Kingdom. I have considered division to be used exclusively for plants.
[edit] Contradiction
Moreover, Firmicutes figures as a phylum in the section on Bacillus subtilis! Googling for Firmicutes reveals more references to it as a phylum than as a division and googling for "Firmicutes phylum" beats googling for "Firmicutes division" 2220 : 46.
Top.Squark 10:58, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] a new type of Firmicutes?
There have been a few articles [1] [2] discussing a species related to Firmicutes that uses radiated water and not sunlight as its food source. It seems like this maybe ought to be added to this article, but I'm not really sure how to incorporate it. TerraFrost 15:47, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nature magazine Video
I intend to add this Jeffery Gordon reference.
I got a request from Nearly Headless Nick 13:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC), to discuss it here before trying again to add it to the page.
