Article
Flavobacterium hibernum sp. nov., a lactose-utilizing bacterium from a freshwater Antarctic lake.
International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1998
McCammon S A, Innes B H, Bowman J P, Franzmann P D, Dobson S J, Holloway P E, Skerratt J H, Nichols P D, Rankin L M
Abstract excerpt
Four freshwater Antarctic lakes were examined for the presence of beta-galactosidase-producing bacteria using mineral medium enrichments and lactose. Enrichments from only one of the lakes produced growth and two strains were isolated that were very similar in phenotype and fatty acid profile, an...
Topics
- Antarctic Regions
- Base Composition
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Flavobacterium
- Fresh Water
- Lactose
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Phenotype
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Temperature
- Terminology as Topic
- Water Microbiology
- beta-Galactosidase