Xanthobacter
"Xanthobacter" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacteria found in wet soil containing decaying organic material and in water. Cells tend to be pleomorphic if grown on media containing succinate or coccoid if grown in the presence of an alcohol as the sole carbon source. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D020584
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.400.425.935 B03.660.050.350.950
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