Serratia
Noun
Meaning
a genus of motile peritrichous bacteria that contain small Gram-negative rod
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Examples
Bacterial lawns (often of Serratia marcescens ) are also used extensively when as an assay method when using bacteriophage as tracers in studies of groundwater flow.
Gammaproteobacteria are the largest subgroup which includes Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Escherichia, Salmonella, and Serratia species.