''Mucilaginibacter gracilis'' is a

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, facultatively aerobic, heterotrophic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of

Mucilaginibacter ''Mucilaginibacter'' is a genus from the family of Sphingobacteriaceae ''Sphingobacteriaceae'' is a family of environmental bacteria. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomencl ...

which has been isolated from

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in the Tomsk Region in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Mucilaginibacter gracilis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Sphingobacteriia Bacteria described in 2007 {{Sphingobacteriia-stub