Psychromonas antarctica
| Psychromonas antarctica | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Alteromonadales |
| Family: | Psychromonadaceae |
| Genus: | Psychromonas |
| Binomial name | |
| Psychromonas antarctica Ivanova et al., 2004 | |
Psychromonas antarctica is a species of Proteobacteria.[1][2]The halophilic and psychrophile bacterium was first isolated from a salinity pond in Antarctica. Psychromonas antarctica is anaerobic but tolerates the presence of oxygen (aerotolerant). It is motile with a polar flagellum.
References
- ↑ Ivanova (E.P.), Flavier (S.) and Christen (R.): Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov. In: Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2004, 54, 1773-1788.
- ↑ D. O. Mountfort, Frederick A. Rainey, Jutta Burghardt, Heinrich F. Kaspar und Erko Stackebrandt: Psychromonas antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new aerotolerant anaerobic, halophilic psychrophile isolated from pond sediment of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica in Archives of Microbiology, Volume 169, Number 3, 231-238
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