Proteobacteria
"Proteobacteria" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A phylum of bacteria consisting of the purple bacteria and their relatives which form a branch of the eubacterial tree. This group of predominantly gram-negative bacteria is classified based on homology of equivalent nucleotide sequences of 16S ribosomal RNA or by hybridization of ribosomal RNA or DNA with 16S and 23S ribosomal RNA.
| Descriptor ID |
D020560
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.660
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