Total strains: 93,254
Type strains: 19,313
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Its mission is to mobilize and integrate research data on strain level from diverse sources and make it freely accessible.
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- colony-forming
- motile
- chemoorganotroph
- facultative anaerobe
Ottowia thiooxydans K11 is a facultative anaerobe, mesophilic, Gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from activated sludge.
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A new statistic tool is available: the new dashboard enables to explore BacDive data in a new interactive way. 49 different graphs within seven sections give a fast overview of the data provided in the database including all strains. For a representative overview, data can be filtered for type strain data only.
See moreAll strain data are referenced by Digital Object Identifiers