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Shewanella frigidimarina and Shewanella livingstonensis sp. nov. isolated from Antarctic coastal areas.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jan 2002
Bozal Núria, Montes M Jesús, Tudela Encarna, Jiménez Francisco, Guinea Jesús
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Three strains of psychrophilic bacteria isolated from Antarctic coastal marine environments were studied to determine their taxonomic position. These bacteria were gram-negative rods, facultatively anaerobic and motile by means of a single polar flagellum. None of the bacterial isolates had an Na+ requirement. Only one of the strains was capable of producing H2S from thiosulfate. The DNA base content of these...
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