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Bacteria > Gram-Negative Bacteria > Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods > Enterobacteriaceae > Xenorhabdus
Bacteria > Proteobacteria > Gammaproteobacteria > Enterobacteriaceae > Xenorhabdus

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Xenorhabdus  

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Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Xenorhabdus nematophila

Note

  • XENORHABDUS LUMINESCENS see PHOTORHABDUS is also available

Scope note

  • A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic rod-shaped cells which are motile by peritrichous flagella. Late in the growth cycle, spheroplasts or coccoid bodies occur, resulting from disintegration of the cell wall. The natural habitat is the intestinal lumen of certain nematodes. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)

History note

  • 2000

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020593

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