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Zymobacter

Zymobacter is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic and non-spore-forming genus from the family of Halomonadaceae, with one known species. Zymobacter palmae has been isolated from palm sap from Okinawa Prefecture.

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Zymobacter
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Oceanospirillales
Family: Halomonadaceae
Genus: Zymobacter
Okamoto et al. 19951
Species

Z. palmae1

Zymobacter is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic and non-spore-forming genus from the family of Halomonadaceae, with one known species (Zymobacter palmae).1234 Zymobacter palmae has been isolated from palm sap from Okinawa Prefecture.3

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References

  1. "Genus: Zymobacter". LPSN.DSMZ.de.
  2. "Zymobacter". www.uniprot.org.
  3. Parker, Charles Thomas; Wigley, Sarah; Garrity, George M. (2009). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Taxonomy of the genus Zymobacter Okamoto et al. 1995" (Dataset). doi:10.1601/tx.2542.
  4. Okamoto, Tomoyuki; Taguchi, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Katsumi; Ikenaga, Hiroshi; Kuraishi, Hiroshi; Yamasato, Kazuhide (November 1993). "Zymobacter palmae gen. nov., sp. nov., a new ethanol-fermenting peritrichous bacterium isolated from palm sap". Archives of Microbiology. 160 (5): 333–337. Bibcode:1993ArMic.160..333O. doi:10.1007/BF00252218. PMID 8257279. S2CID 21640805.