Acidaminococcus is a genus in the phylum Firmicutes (Bacteria) whose members are anaerobic diplococci that can use amino acids as the sole energy source for growth. Like other members of the class Negativicutes they are gram-negative despite being Firmicutes which are normally gram-positive.
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