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An ammonia-oxidizing, autotroph growing, slender, curved rod was isolated from the soil of Hawaii. It is well distinguishable from any other nitrifying bacteria thus far described by their morphology. The cells are 1.1–3.0 μm long and 0.3–0.4 μm wide. They are motile by means of 1–4 subpolar to lateral flagella. In contrast to most of the ammonia-oxidizing bacteria the isolated vibrio is void of an extensive cytomembrane system. To categorize this not yet described species we propose to create the new genus Nitrosovibrio and to classify the isolated strain as Nitrosovibrio tenuis.
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Harms, H., Koops, HP. & Wehrmann, H. An ammonia-oxidizing bacterium, Nitrosovibrio tenuis nov. gen. nov. sp.. Arch. Microbiol. 108, 105–111 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00425099
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