Colwellia

Colwellia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Alteromonadales
Family:	Colwelliaceae
Genus:	Colwellia Deming et al. 1988[1]
Type species
Colwellia psychrerythraea[1]
Species
C. aestuarii[1] C. agarivorans[1] C. aquaemaris[1] C. arctica[1] C. asteriadis[1] C. beringensis[1] C. chukchiensis[1] C. demingiae[1] C. echini[1] C. hadaliensis[1] C. hornerae[1] C. marinimaniae[1] C. maris[1] C. meonggei[1] C. mytili[1] C. piezophila[1] C. polaris[1] C. psychrerythraea[1] C. psychrotropica[1] C. rossensis[1] C. sediminilitoris[1]

Colwellia is a genus of deep-sea psychrophilic, piezophilic, and facultative anaerobic bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae.[1][2][3][4][5] Colwellia grows at a temperature at −20 °C by producing cryoprotective polymeric substances.[6]

References

1. LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
2. UniProt
3. Stanley Falkow, ed. (2006). Proteobacteria : Gamma subclass (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25496-X.
4. Rosa Margesin; Franz Schinner; Jean-Claude Marx; Charles Gerday, eds. (2008). Psychrophiles from biodiversity to biotechnology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74335-4.
5. Sébert, Philippe, ed. (2010). Comparative high pressure biology. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4398-4361-1.
6. Guido di Prisco; Cinzia Verde, eds. (2012). Adaptation and evolution in marine environments (2012 ed.). Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-27352-0.

Further reading

• Mason, Olivia U.; Han, James; Woyke, Tanja; Jansson, Janet K. (8 July 2014). "Single-cell genomics reveals features of a Colwellia species that was dominant during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill". Frontiers in Microbiology. 5: 332. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00332. PMC 4085564. PMID 25071745.
• Yumoto, Isao, ed. (2013). Cold-adapted microorganisms. Norfolk: Caister Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-908230-26-3.
• Buller, Nicky B (2011). Bacteria and fungi from fish and other aquatic animals ... [S.l.]: Cabi. ISBN 978-1-84593-805-5.
• Paul, John H., ed. (2001). Methods in microbiology (Repr. ed.). San Diego, London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-521530-4.
• Bej, Asim K.; Aislabie, Jackie; Atlas, Ronald M., eds. (2010). Polar microbiology the ecology, biodiversity, and bioremediation potential of microorganisms in extremely cold environments. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-4200-8388-0.
• Jain, Sudhir K.; Khan, Abdul Arif; Rai, Mahendra K., eds. (2010). Geomicrobiology. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4398-4510-3.
• Horikoshi, Koki, ed. (2011). Extremophiles handbook. Tokyo: Springer. ISBN 978-4-431-53897-4.