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Neisseriales
Neisseriales
Translingual
Proper noun
Neisseriales
- A taxonomic order within the class Betaproteobacteria – aerobic and Gram-negative bacteria that are gut flora in mammal, some known to cause diseases in humans: gonorrhea and meningitis.
Hypernyms
- (order): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Betaproteobacteria - class
Hyponyms
- (order): Chromobacteriaceae, Neisseriaceae - families
References
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521