''Marinomonas arctica'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...

psychrotolerant Psychrophiles or cryophiles (adj. ''psychrophilic'' or ''cryophilic'') are extremophilic organisms that are capable of growth and reproduction in low temperatures, ranging from to . They are found in places that are permanently cold, such as the ...

and motile bacterium from the genus of ''

Marinomonas ''Marinomonas'' is an aerobic bacteria genus from the family of Oceanospirillaceae Oceanospirillaceae is a family of Pseudomonadota. Most genera in this family live in environments with high concentrations of salt; they are halotolerant or ha ...

'' which has been isolated from sea-ice from the Canadian Basin from the

Arctic Ocean The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. It spans an area of approximately and is the coldest of the world's oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Marinomonas arctica'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Oceanospirillales Bacteria described in 2008 Psychrophiles {{Oceanospirillales-stub