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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci > Xanthobacter
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Alphaproteobacteria > Hyphomicrobiaceae > Xanthobacter

Preferred term

Xanthobacter  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Xanthobacter autotrophicus
  • Xanthobacter flavus

Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria found in wet soil containing decaying organic material and in water. Cells tend to be pleomorphic if grown on media containing succinate or coccoid if grown in the presence of an alcohol as the sole carbon source. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)

History note

  • 2000

In other languages

  • ksantobakteeri

    Finnish

  • Xanthobacter
  • Xanthobacter autotrophicus
  • Xanthobacter flavus
  • Xanthobacter

    Swedish

  • Corynebacterium autotrophicum
  • Xanthobacter autotrophicus
  • Xanthobacter flavus

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020584

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