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SUBMITTER: De Meyer SE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4609095 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Standards in genomic sciences 20151016
Cupriavidus sp. strain AMP6 is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming rod that was isolated from a root nodule of Mimosa asperata collected in Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, Texas, in 2005. Mimosa asperata is the only legume described so far to exclusively associates with Cupriavidus symbionts. Moreover, strain AMP6 represents an early-diverging lineage within the symbiotic Cupriavidus group and has the capacity to develop an effective nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with three othe ...[more]