- Source: 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). Its genome has been sequenced.
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LPSN
Type strain of Opitutus terrae at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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