Class Sphingobacteria | Phylum Bacteroidetes Rank Genus | |
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Similar Sphingobacterium, Flavobacterium, Janthinobacterium, Brevundimonas, Bacteroidetes |
Medical vocabulary what does pedobacter mean
Pedobacter is a genus of Gram-negative soil-associated bacteria. Species including Pedobacter heparinus, formerly known as Flavobacterium heparinum, produce heparinase and are capable of using heparin as their sole carbon and nitrogen source.
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In molecular biology, Pedobacter has also been identified as a contaminant of DNA extraction kit reagents and ultra-pure water systems, which may lead to its erroneous appearance in microbiota or metagenomic datasets.
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