''Solibacillus isronensis'' is a bacterium from the genus of ''

Solibacillus ''Solibacillus'' is a genus of Gram positive, rod shaped, spore-forming bacteria. The first member of ''Solibacillus'' was first isolated in 1999, and was originally called ''Bacillus silvestris''. However, further studies on ''B. silvestris'' f ...

'' which has been isolated from a

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tube from

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. It is named after

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, India's space agency which discovered the species.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Solibacillus isronensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacillales Bacteria described in 2009 {{Gammaproteobacteria-stub