sporosarcina sporosarcina sporosarcina is a genus of bacteria. sporosarcina scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacillota class: bacilli order: caryphanales family: caryophanaceae genus: sporosarcinakluyver and van niel 1936 emend. yoon et al. 2001 specification the cells of the species of sporosarcina are either rod-shaped or coccoid. sporosarcina forms endospores. the majority species of sporosarcina is moveable (motile). metabolism all species of sporosarcina are heterotrophic. they do not perform photosynthesis. a few species are obligate aerobic, they need oxygen. others are facultative aerobic, they can also perform metabolism in the absence of oxygen. ecology some species, such as s. ureae have the enzyme urease and are thus able to break down urea. the species forms the highest population densities in soils that are subject to influence of urine. these include, for example, meadows where cattle are kept. thus s. ureae plays an important role in the ecosystem. molecular signatures analyses of genome sequences of sporosarcina species identified eight conserved signature indels (csis) that are uniquely present in this genus in the proteins aspartate–trna ligase, a/g-specific adenine glycosylase, thymidylate synthase, rdd family protein, dead/deah box helicase, membrane protein insertase yidc, cytochrome b6, and a hypothetical protein. these molecular signatures provide a novel and reliable method to molecularly distinguishing sporosarcina species from other genera in the family caryophanaceae and other bacteria. systematics sporosarcina belongs to the bacillota. some examples of species: sporosarcina luteola tominaga et al. 2009 sporosarcina aquimarina yoon et al. 2001 sporosarcina contaminans kämpfer et al. 2010 sporosarcina globispora (larkin and stokes 1967) yoon et al. 2001 sporosarcina newyorkensis wolfgang et al. 2012 sporosarcina pasteurii (miquel 1889) yoon et al. 2001 sporosarcina psychrophila (nakamura 1984) yoon et al. 2001 sporosarcina saromensis an et al. 2007 sporosarcina siberiensis zhang et al. 2014 sporosarcina soli kwon et al. 2007 sporosarcina terrae sun et al. 2017 sporosarcina thermotolerans kämpfer et al. 2010 sporosarcina ureae (beijerinck 1901) kluyver and van niel 1936