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Flexilinea

Flexilinea is a bacterial genus from the family of Anaerolineaceae with one known species. Flexilinea flocculi has been isolated from methanogenic granular sludge.

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Flexilinea
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Chloroflexota
Class: Anaerolineae
Order: Anaerolineales
Family: Anaerolineaceae
Genus: Flexilinea
Sun et al. 20161
Type species
Flexilinea flocculi
Sun et al. 2016
Species
  • F. flocculi

Flexilinea is a bacterial genus from the family of Anaerolineaceae with one known species (Flexilinea flocculi).1234 Flexilinea flocculi has been isolated from methanogenic granular sludge.4

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References

References

  1. Parte, A.C. "Flexilinea". LPSN.
  2. Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (2016). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Flexilinea Sun et al. 2016". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.28432.
  3. "Flexilinea". Www.uniprot.org.
  4. Sun, L; Toyonaga, M; Ohashi, A; Matsuura, N; Tourlousse, DM; Meng, XY; Tamaki, H; Hanada, S; Cruz, R; Yamaguchi, T; Sekiguchi, Y (February 2016). "Isolation and characterization of Flexilinea flocculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous, anaerobic bacterium belonging to the class Anaerolineae in the phylum Chloroflexi". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 66 (2): 988–996. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.000822. PMID 26637817.