Anaerobacter

{{Short description|Monotypic genus of bacteria}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Anaerobacter

| authority = Duda et al. 1996

| type_species =Anaerobacter polyendosporus

| type_species_authority = Duda et al. 1996[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/anaerobacter LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de]

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• Anaerobacter polyendosporus

}}

Anaerobacter is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria related to Clostridium. They are anaerobic chemotrophs and are unusual spore-formers as they produce more than one spore per bacterial cell (up to five).{{cite journal | vauthors = Siunov A, Nikitin D, Suzina N, Dmitriev V, Kuzmin N, Duda V | title = Phylogenetic status of Anaerobacter polyendosporus, an anaerobic, polysporogenic bacterium. | url=http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/49/3/1119.pdf | journal = Int J Syst Bacteriol | volume = 49 | issue = 3| pages = 1119–24 | year = 1999| pmid = 10425769 | doi=10.1099/00207713-49-3-1119| doi-access = free }} They fix nitrogen. Their G+C content is 29%.{{cite book | editor = Madigan M | editor2 = Martinko J | title = Brock Biology of Microorganisms | edition = 11th | publisher = Prentice Hall | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-13-144329-1 }}

Only one species of this genus (Anaerobacter polyendosporus) has been described.