Collimonas | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
Order: | Burkholderiales |
Family: | Oxalobacteraceae |
Genus: | Collimonas de Boer et al. 2004 |
Species [1] | |
Collimonas arenae |
Collimonas is a genus of bacteria in the family Oxalobacteraceae. [2] Culturable representatives of this genus have the ability to lyse chitin, to use fungal hyphae as a source of food, to produce antifungal molecules and to be effective at weathering . [3] [4] [5] [6]
To date, 6 species have been described Collimonas fungivorans, Collimonas pratensis, Collimonas arenae, Collimonas antrihumi, Collimonas humicola, Collimonas silvisoli. [7] [8] [9] [10]