Biology:Flavobacterium flevense

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Flavobacterium flevense
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Flavobacterium
Species:
F. flevense
Binomial name
Flavobacterium flevense
(van der Meulen et al. 1974) Bernardet et al. 1996
Synonyms
  • Cytophaga flevensis

Flavobacterium flevense is a freshwater agar-degrading bacterium in the order Flavobacteriales.[1] It is a gram-negative bacterium capable of surviving extreme cold temperatures (psychrophilic).

It was first isolated in IJsselmeer, an inland bay in the Netherlands that is believed to have gradually separated from the open North Sea.[2] It does not produce flexirubin type pigments, making it an outlier in the non-marine Cytophaga-Flavobacteria species [2].Therefore, it is hypothesized that F. flevense was originally a marine organism without flexirubin pigment, that gradually adapted to freshwater conditions as the seawater was supplemented with freshwater.

References

  1. Podstawka, Adam. "Flavobacterium flevense A-34 | Type strain | DSM 1076, ATCC 27944, IAM 14303 | BacDiveID:5513" (in en). https://bacdive.dsmz.de/strain/5513. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Reichenbach, Hans (2006), Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley; Rosenberg, Eugene et al., eds., "The Order Cytophagales" (in en), The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass (New York, NY: Springer): pp. 549–590, doi:10.1007/0-387-30747-8_20, ISBN 978-0-387-30747-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30747-8_20, retrieved 2021-04-02 

Wikidata ☰ Q20721804 entry