Deinococcus indicus is a species of arsenic-resistant bacterium. It is Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-sporulating and red-pigmented, with type strain Wt/1aT (=MTCC 4913T =DSM 15307T).[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Deinococcota |
| Class: | Deinococci |
| Order: | Deinococcales |
| Family: | Deinococcaceae |
| Genus: | Deinococcus |
| Species: | D. indicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Deinococcus indicus Suresh et al. 2004
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References
edit- ^ Suresh, K. (2004). "Deinococcus indicus sp. nov., an arsenic-resistant bacterium from an aquifer in West Bengal, India". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 457–461. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02758-0. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 15023960.
Further reading
edit- Martin Dworkin; Stanley Falkow (8 November 2006). The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 798–. ISBN 978-0-387-25497-5.
- Paul Vos; George Garrity; Dorothy Jones; Noel R. Krieg; Wolfgang Ludwig; Fred A. Rainey; Karl-Heinz Schleifer; William B. Whitman (28 January 2011). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 1333–. ISBN 978-0-387-68489-5.
External links
edit- LPSN
- "Deinococcus indicus" at the Encyclopedia of Life
- Type strain of Deinococcus indicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
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