''Psychroflexus tropicus'' is an obligately
halophilic
A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
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''Cytophaga–Flavobacterium–Bacteroides'' group bacterium. It is
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 ...
, fine rod- to short filament-shaped, with type strain LA1
T (=ATCC BAA-734
T =DSM 15496
T).
References
Further reading
*Schinner, Franz, Jean-Claude Marx, and Charles Gerday, eds. Psychrophiles: from biodiversity to biotechnology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2008.
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*Villanueva, Laura, et al. "Combined phospholipid biomarker-16S rRNA gene denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of bacterial diversity and physiological status in an intertidal microbial mat." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70.11 (2004): 6920–6926.
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External links
LPSN*
Type strain of ''Psychroflexus tropicus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria
Bacteria described in 2004
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