Flexithrix | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
Class: | Cytophagia |
Order: | Cytophagales |
Family: | Flammeovirgaceae |
Genus: | Flexithrix Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)[1] |
Species: | F. dorotheae
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Binomial name | |
Flexithrix dorotheae Lewin 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Flexithrix is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming and motile genus of bacteria from the family Flammeovirgaceae with one known species (Flexithrix dorotheae) which first has been isolated from marine mud.[2][3][4][1] Flammeovirga produce zeaxanthin, poly-β-D-glutamic acid and poly-β-L-glutamine.[4][5][6]