Opitutus terrae

Opitutus terrae is an obligately anaerobic (cannot grow in the presence of oxygen) bacterium first isolated from rice paddy soil, hence its epithet. It is coccus-shaped and is motile by means of a flagellum. Its type strain is PB90-1T (= DSM 11246T).[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

Opitutus terrae
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O. terrae
Binomial name
Opitutus terrae
Chin et al. 2001

References

  1. Chin, K. J.; Liesack, W.; Janssen, P. H. (2001). "Opitutus terrae gen. nov., sp. nov., to accommodate novel strains of the division 'Verrucomicrobia' isolated from rice paddy soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 51 (6): 1965–1968. doi:10.1099/00207713-51-6-1965. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 11760935.
  2. van Passel, M. W. J.; Kant, R.; Palva, A.; Copeland, A.; Lucas, S.; Lapidus, A.; Glavina del Rio, T.; Pitluck, S.; Goltsman, E.; Clum, A.; Sun, H.; Schmutz, J.; Larimer, F. W.; Land, M. L.; Hauser, L.; Kyrpides, N.; Mikhailova, N.; Richardson, P. P.; Janssen, P. H.; de Vos, W. M.; Smidt, H. (2011). "Genome Sequence of the Verrucomicrobium Opitutus terrae PB90-1, an Abundant Inhabitant of Rice Paddy Soil Ecosystems". Journal of Bacteriology. 193 (9): 2367–2368. doi:10.1128/JB.00228-11. ISSN 0021-9193. PMC 3133072. PMID 21398538.

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