Ovococcus

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An ellipsoid-shaped bacterium

    "The architecture in Gram-positive cocci and ovococci is largely uncharacterised, In this study, atomic force microscopy (AFM) of purified sacculi of three species of ovococcus was combined with biochemical analysis and super resolution fluorescence microscopy."

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"The architecture in Gram-positive cocci and ovococci is largely uncharacterised, In this study, atomic force microscopy (AFM) of purified sacculi of three species of ovococcus was combined with biochemical analysis and super resolution fluorescence microscopy."

Etymology

From ovo- + -coccus; cf. ovoid (“oval; egg-shaped”).

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