Characterization of a bacterium isolated
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Tetsuo Hamamoto; Koki Horikoshi
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Article
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1994
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Springer
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English
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A bacterium has been isolated from Baltic amber, after it was soaked in ethanol and flamed. The bacterium was a Gram-positive aerobic spore-forming rod whose 16S rDNA sequence had a 99.6% homology to that of Bacillus subtilis. Accordingly, the bacterium was identified as a strain in the species Baci