''Bacillus aminovorans'' is a

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bact ...

rod-shaped A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name '' Baci ...

species of

bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...

. Samples of this species have been isolated from dust above the Atlantic Ocean. Though phenotypically similar to the species '' Sporosarcina globispora'' (formerly ''Bacillus globisporus''), ''

Bacillus marinus ''Jeotgalibacillus marinus'' is a bacterium used as a soil inoculant in agriculture and horticulture Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of plant cultivation. It includes the c ...

'', and '' Bacillus insolitus'', ''B. aminovorans'' is the only one of these species capable of using sucrose as a sole carbon source.

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