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VIBRIO DIAZOTROPHICUS
| Class: | Gamma Proteobacteria |
| Genus: | Vibrio |
| Species: | Vibrio diazotrophicus |
| Description: | Gram-negative, short rods. 0.5 by 1.5 to 2.0 μm; axis straight or curved. Cells occur singly or are sometimes united into S-shapes or spirals.No resting stages have been observed. Cells are motile by means of a single polar flagellum, which may be sheathed when the cells are grown in liquid media.A nitrogen fixing bacterium. |
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| Source: | distributed throughout marine and estuarine environments,occurring in seawater,sediments, and the gastrointestinal tracts of marine animals. |
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| Genbank: | NZ_BBJY00000000.1 [Genome] [Nucleotide] |
| Size (Mb): | 4.72 |
| GC %: | 43.4 |
| Genes: | 4,254 |
| CDS Number: | 4,140 |
| Reference: | GUERINOT (M.L.), WEST (P.A.), LEE (J.V.) and COLWELL (R.R.): Vibrio diazotrophicus sp. nov., a marine nitrogen-fixing bacterium. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1982, 32, 350-357. |
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