Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous gram-negative bacteria of the phylum Proteobacteria, including E. coli, the agrobacteria, many nitrogen-fixing bacteria, and many pathogens, such as salmonella.
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- noun Any
microbe of thephylum Proteobacteria , many of which arepathogenic .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin prōteobactērium, back-formed singular of Prōteobactēria, phylum name : Greek Prōteus, Proteus (the great morphological, metabolic, and ecological diversity of the phylum being likened to the god's shape-shifting powers) + New Latin bactērium, bacterium; see bacterium.]
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Examples
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If you sequence the RNA in a mitochondrial ribosome, the sequence is a much closer match to the RNA in the ribosomes of a proteobacterium than it is to the RNA in any other organism’s ribosomes.
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[31] (a gamma-proteobacterium), and Acidothermus cellulolyticus
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010
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[30] (a delta-proteobacterium), Shewanella amazonensis
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jenna L. Morgan et al. 2010
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