Bacteroides fluxus: Difference between revisions
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Bacteroides fluxus is a newly recognized bacterium that is part of the diverse human gastrointestinal microbiome, and the GI microbiome of some other mammalians. The strain of B. fluxus that was isolated from human feces is known as YIT 12057. The short lived life span of this bacterium during observation led to the nomenclature of B. fluxus. | |||
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Edited by ( | [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/60/8/1864.full?sid=95c1d2ff-ebba-491f-bdf8-39b606a6c772 Watanabe, Y., Nagai, F., Morotomic, M., Sakon, H., and Tanaka, R. “”Bacteroides clarus sp. nov., Bacteroides fluxus sp. nov. and Bacteroides oleiciplenus sp. nov., isolated from human faeces”. “International Journal of Systematic and Evolutiony Microbiology”. 2010. Volume 60. p. 489-500.] | ||
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Revision as of 23:14, 12 March 2014
Classification
Higher order taxa
Bacteria; Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidetes; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidaceae; Bacteroides
Species
Bacteroides fluxus is a newly recognized bacterium that is part of the diverse human gastrointestinal microbiome, and the GI microbiome of some other mammalians. The strain of B. fluxus that was isolated from human feces is known as YIT 12057. The short lived life span of this bacterium during observation led to the nomenclature of B. fluxus.
Description and significance
Current Research
describe one or two topics of research on this microbe
References
Edited by (Samantha Nicholas), student of Rachel Larsen at the University of Southern Maine