A genus of asporogenous bacteria isolated from soil that displays a distinctive rod-coccus growth cycle.

Quinaldines are organic compounds with a pyrazine structure substituted with a quinoline moiety, historically used as fragrances and pharmaceuticals but now mostly replaced by safer and more effective alternatives due to their potential toxicity and irritancy.

The presence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi in the soil. This term is not restricted to pathogenic organisms.

Elimination of ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; PESTICIDES and other waste using living organisms, usually involving intervention of environmental or sanitation engineers.

Constituent of 30S subunit prokaryotic ribosomes containing 1600 nucleotides and 21 proteins. 16S rRNA is involved in initiation of polypeptide synthesis.

A family of bacteria ranging from free living and saprophytic to parasitic and pathogenic forms.

The continent lying around the South Pole and the southern waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. It includes the Falkland Islands Dependencies. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p55)

A gram-positive organism found in dairy products, fresh and salt water, marine organisms, insects, and decaying organic matter.

DNA sequences encoding RIBOSOMAL RNA and the segments of DNA separating the individual ribosomal RNA genes, referred to as RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA.

Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.

Deoxyribonucleic acid that makes up the genetic material of bacteria.

'Paintings' are not a medical term, but rather an artistic expression involving the application and manipulation of pigments on a surface to create an image or design, which has no direct medical relevance or definition.