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Wikispecies

Proper noun

Betaproteobacteria

1. A taxonomic class within the phylum Proteobacteria – many aerobic proteobacteria.

Hyponyms

• (class): Burkholderiales, Hydrogenophilales, Methylophilales, Neisseriales, Nitrosomonadales, Procabacteriales, Rhodocyclales - orders; unclassified Beta Proteobacteria

English

Noun

betaproteobacteria

1. plural of betaproteobacterium
   • 2015 October 1, “Adaptation in Toxic Environments: Arsenic Genomic Islands in the Bacterial Genus Thiomonas”, in PLOS ONE, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0139011:

     These facultative chemolithoautotrophic betaproteobacteria are able to use reduced inorganic sulfur compounds (RISCs) as electron donors.