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Escherichia coli (strain K12)

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Escherichia coli (strain K12) is the taxon name in UniProt Taxonomy, with NCBI identifier 83333 and source rank strain. The classification below follows this captured record; it is not a reconstruction of evolutionary relationships. [1]

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  1. Captured UniProt Taxonomy record 83333

    2026-09-09T04:22:52.810530+00:00 · CC-BY-4.0

    Provenance and original
    Original SHA-256
    83c59ae9694d1874b8a175d7ce7608f77f5688d35adf307a0859dbb20f9e1c17
    Version details
    No native taxonomy release was supplied; exact response hash and retrieval time are retained.
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343684b26ca2b683a161ea97fa4830b5db18b7b971f165495caf7e7d263201e4
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83c59ae9694d1874b8a175d7ce7608f77f5688d35adf307a0859dbb20f9e1c17
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01 · A place in the living world

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  1. No rankcellular organisms
  2. DomainBacteria
  3. KingdomPseudomonadati
  4. PhylumPseudomonadota
  5. ClassGammaproteobacteria
  6. OrderEnterobacterales
  7. FamilyEnterobacteriaceae
  8. GenusEscherichia
  9. SpeciesEscherichia coli
  10. StrainEscherichia coli (strain K12)

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UniProt Taxonomy83333CC-BY-4.0Source record ↗
UniProt Taxonomy83333CC-BY-4.0Description version ↗