Flavobacterium frigidarium

Flavobacterium frigidarium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Bacteroidota
Class:	Flavobacteriia
Order:	Flavobacteriales
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Flavobacterium
Species:	F. frigidarium
Binomial name
Flavobacterium frigidarium Humphry et al. 2001

Flavobacterium frigidarium is a bacterium. It is an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica. It is gram-negative, non-motile and yellow-pigmented. Its type strain is A2i^T (= ATCC 700810^T = NCIMB 13737^T). ^[1]

References

1. Humphry DR, George A, Black GW, Cummings SP (July 2001). "Flavobacterium frigidarium sp. nov., an aerobic, psychrophilic, xylanolytic and laminarinolytic bacterium from Antarctica". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 51 (Pt 4): 1235–43. doi: 10.1099/00207713-51-4-1235 . PMID   11491319.

Further reading

• Humphry, David Robert. Taxonomy of the psychrophile Flavobacterium frigidarium and the mesophile Cellvibrio japonicus, and comparative analyses of their xylanolytic and laminarinolytic activities. Diss. University of Sunderland, 2003.
• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
• Van Trappen, Stefanie. "Diversity of Flavobacterium spp. in polar aquatic environments." (2009): HASH-0x57f0c78.

External links

• "Flavobacterium frigidarium". The Encyclopedia of Life .
• LPSN
• WORMS entry
• Type strain of Flavobacterium frigidarium at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase