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).
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Flavobacterium |
| Species: | F. flevense
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| Binomial name | |
| Flavobacterium flevense (van der Meulen et al. 1974) Bernardet et al. 1996
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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 edit
- ^ Podstawka, Adam. "Flavobacterium flevense A-34 | Type strain | DSM 1076, ATCC 27944, IAM 14303 | BacDiveID:5513". bacdive.dsmz.de. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
- ^ a b Reichenbach, Hans (2006), Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley; Rosenberg, Eugene; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz (eds.), "The Order Cytophagales", 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, retrieved 2021-04-02