Ammoniphilus is a Gram-variable, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, haloalkalitolerant spore-forming, obligately oxalotrophic and motile bacterial genus from the family of Paenibacillaceae with peritrichous flagella.[1][2][3][4][5] In the cell wall of Ammoniphilus is meso-diaminopimelic acid.[5]
Ammoniphilus oxalaticus | |
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(unranked): | Aneurinibacillus group
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Genus: | Ammoniphilus Zaitsev et al. 1998[1]
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Ammoniphilus oxalaticus[1] | |
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A. oxalaticus[1] |