''Sphingomonas faeni'' is a
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...
bacteria from the genus of
Sphingomonas
''Sphingomonas'' was defined in 1990 as a group of Gram-negative, rod-shaped, chemoheterotrophic, strictly Aerobic organism, aerobic bacteria. They possess ubiquinone 10 as their major Electron transport chain#Quinone carriers, respiratory quinon ...
which has been isolated from indoor dusts from animal sheds in
Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
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External links
Type strain of ''Sphingomonas faeni'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
faeni
Bacteria described in 2003
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