[New species of bacteria in the genus Kurthia--Kurthia sibirica sp. nov].

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[New species of bacteria in the genus Kurthia--Kurthia sibirica sp. nov].

Mikrobiologiia - 1 Jan 2000

Belikova V A, Cherevach N V, Kalakutskiĭ L V

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Six aerobic gram-positive nonspore-forming bacterial strains belonging to the Kurthia genus were isolated from the Magadan (Susuman) mammoth found in the permafrost of the East Siberia. The strains are a phenotypically homogeneous group different from the two known species (K. zopfii and K. gibso...

Topics

Actinomycetales
Animals
Elephants
Fossils
Phenotype
Siberia

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