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Betaproteobacteria

Betaproteobacteria

See also: betaproteobacteria

Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Betaproteobacteria

  1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Proteobacteria – many aerobic proteobacteria.

Hyponyms

betaproteobacteria

betaproteobacteria

See also: Betaproteobacteria

English

Noun

betaproteobacteria

  1. plural of betaproteobacterium
    • 2015 October 1, “Adaptation in Toxic Environments: Arsenic Genomic Islands in the Bacterial Genus Thiomonas”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0139011:
      These facultative chemolithoautotrophic betaproteobacteria are able to use reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (RISCs) as electron donors.