Gram Stain
See also: Gram stainThe family Veillonellaceae was transferred from the order Clostridiales to the new order Selenomonadales in the new class Negativicutes. Despite most of the members of the Firmicutes staining positive for the Gram stain and being trivially called "low-GC Gram-positives" (c.f. Bacterial phyla),members of the Negativicutes stain Gram-negative and possess a double bilayer.
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