"Xenorhabdus" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic rod-shaped cells which are motile by peritrichous flagella. Late in the growth cycle, spheroplasts or coccoid bodies occur, resulting from disintegration of the cell wall. The natural habitat is the intestinal lumen of certain nematodes. (From Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 9th ed)
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D020593
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.440.450.425.890 B03.660.250.150.910
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Type 1 fimbriae of insecticidal bacterium Xenorhabdus nematophila is necessary for growth and colonization of its symbiotic host nematode Steinernema carpocapsiae. Environ Microbiol. 2008 May; 10(5):1285-95.