Psychromonas antarcticus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new aerotolerant anaerobic, halophilic psychrophile isolated from pond sediment of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 231-238

  Mountfort, Douglas O ^a   Rainey, Frederick A ^b   Burghardt, Jutta ^c   Kaspar, Heinrich F ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^c  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aerotolerant anaerobe; Antarctica; Psychromonas antarcticus; Psychrophile; Saccharophile

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CATALASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHROMONAS ANTARCTICUS; SEDIMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031885162     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050566     Document Type: Article

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