Colwellia

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Colwellia
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Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Alteromonadales
Family: Colwelliaceae
Genus: Colwellia
Deming et al. 1988 [1]
Type species
Colwellia psychrerythraea [1]
Species

C. aestuarii [1]
C. agarivorans [1]
C. aquaemaris [1]
C. arctica [1]
C. asteriadis [1]
C. beringensis [1]
C. chukchiensis [1]
C. demingiae [1]
C. echini [1]
C. hadaliensis [1]
C. hornerae [1]
C. marinimaniae [1]
C. maris [1]
C. meonggei [1]
C. mytili [1]
C. piezophila [1]
C. polaris [1]
C. psychrerythraea [1]
C. psychrotropica [1]
C. rossensis [1]
C. sediminilitoris [1]

Colwellia is a genus of deep-sea psychrophilic, piezophilic, and facultative anaerobic bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Colwellia can survive at subzero temperatures by producing cryoprotective polymeric substances. [6]

References

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  2. UniProt
  3. Stanley Falkow, ed. (2006). Proteobacteria : Gamma subclass (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN   0-387-25496-X.
  4. Rosa Margesin; Franz Schinner; Jean-Claude Marx; Charles Gerday, eds. (2008). Psychrophiles from biodiversity to biotechnology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN   978-3-540-74335-4.
  5. Sébert, Philippe, ed. (2010). Comparative high pressure biology. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. ISBN   978-1-4398-4361-1.
  6. Guido di Prisco; Cinzia Verde, eds. (2012). Adaptation and evolution in marine environments (2012 ed.). Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN   978-3-642-27352-0.

Further reading