Oceanobacillus chironomi

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Oceanobacillus chironomi
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Oceanobacillus
Species:
O. chironomi
Binomial name
Oceanobacillus chironomi
Raats and Halpern 2007

Oceanobacillus chironomi is a bacterium. [1] It is Gram-positive, motile by peritrichous flagella, endospore-forming, halotolerant and facultatively alkaliphilic. The type strain is T3944DT (=LMG 23627T =DSM 18262T).

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References

  1. Raats, D.; Halpern, M. (2007). "Oceanobacillus chironomi sp. nov., a halotolerant and facultatively alkaliphilic species isolated from a chironomid egg mass". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (2): 255–259. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.64502-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   17267960.

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