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firmicutes

firmicutes is the plural of firmicute.

Meaning of firmicute

Noun

firmicute (plural firmicutes)

  1. Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
    • In contrast, all the interactions in this motif are conserved in several distantly related genomes such as the beta-proteobacterium B. pertussis and the firmicute D. hafniense (fig. 2b).2007, M. Madan Babu, S. Balaji, L. Aravind, “General Trends in the Evolution of Prokaryotic Transcriptional Regulatory Networks”, in Jean-Nicolas Volff, editor, Gene and Protein Evolution, page 72

Questions about firmicutes

What is firmicutes the plural of?
Firmicutes is the plural of firmicute.

Words near firmicutes in the dictionary

  1. firmer
  2. firmers
  3. firmest
  4. firmhearted
  5. firmicute
  6. firmicutes
  7. Firmin
  8. firming
  9. firming agent
  10. firming agents
  11. firming up

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