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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria > Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci > Alteromonas
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Alteromonadaceae > Alteromonas

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Alteromonas  

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Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative, straight or curved rods which are motile by means of a single, polar flagellum. Members of this genus are found in coastal waters and the open ocean. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)

History note

  • 2000

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020591

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