Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Growing well in an acid medium.
- adjective Easily stained with acid dyes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
acidophil .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective growing well in an acid medium; said of some bacteria.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or being an
acidophile
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective especially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium
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Examples
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Methylocella palustris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new methane-oxidizing acidophilic bacterium from peat bogs, representing a novel subtype of serine-pathway methanotrophs.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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The acidophilic methanotrophs form two new genera: Methylocapsaand Methylocella [42], the latter affiliating with heterotrophic Beijerinckia indica.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Isolation of acidophilic methane-oxidizing bacteria from northern peat wetlands.
Implications of current species distributions for future biotic change in the Arctic 2009
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Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia.
Hell’s Gate Hides Methane-Eating Microorganism Staq Mavlen 2007
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Methane oxidation by an extremely acidophilic bacterium of the phylum Verrucomicrobia.
Archive 2007-12-01 Staq Mavlen 2007
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Increased apoptotic and acidophilic bodies were detected in both MH and HH populations of chimeric livers from vTK+ SCID/uPA that received GCV compared to those from mice that did not receive GCV and vTK − SCID/uPA mice (not shown).
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donna N. Douglas et al. 2010
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Areas of necrosis, acidophilic bodies, necrosis and apoptotic bodies were also featured in these livers but were absent from vTK −
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Donna N. Douglas et al. 2010
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Their model is based on a type of virus in the archaeal kingdom called Crenarchaeota, which thrives in extremely hot, acidic environments like those found on the bottom of the ocean, where the viruses infiltrate hosts called acidophilic hyperthermophiles.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Their model is based on a type of virus in the archaeal kingdom called Crenarchaeota, which thrives in extremely hot, acidic environments like those found on the bottom of the ocean, where the viruses infiltrate hosts called acidophilic hyperthermophiles.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Their model is based on a type of virus in the archaeal kingdom called Crenarchaeota, which thrives in extremely hot, acidic environments like those found on the bottom of the ocean, where the viruses infiltrate hosts called acidophilic hyperthermophiles.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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