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Spirochaeta
Sign in to saveSpirochaeta is a genus of bacteria classified within the phylum Spirochaetota.
Species
Genus
- PhylumSpirochaetes
- ClassSpirochaetes(Class)
- OrderSpirochaetales
- FamilySpirochaetaceae
Habitatmarine
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Research
999 papers- [Spirochaeta antigens].Ergebnisse der Mikrobiologie, Immunitatsforschung und experimentellen Therapie · 1966
- The spirochetes.Annual review of microbiology · 1977
- A Spirochaeta phage.Nature · 1960
- Chemotaxis in Spirochaeta aurantia.Journal of bacteriology · 1977
- Spirochaeta sphaeroplastigenens sp. nov., a halo-alkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic spirochaete isolated from soda lake Lonar.International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2013
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spirochaetaceae
- Image
- Spirochaeta americana.png
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- Gram staining
- gram-negative bacteria
- taxon name
- Spirochaeta
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Spirochaeta
- LPSN URL
- lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/spirochaeta
- nomenclatural type of
- Spirochaetaceae
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Phylogeny
- See also
- References
Spirochaeta is a genus of bacteria classified within the phylum Spirochaetota.
==Phylogeny== The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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