Gelidibacter algens is a species of psychrophilic, yellow-pigmented bacteria. It is saccharolytic, exhibits rapid gliding motility, and its cells are rod-like to filamentous. Its type strain is ACAM 536.[1]

Gelidibacter algens
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Gelidibacter algens

Bowman et al. 1997

References

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  1. ^ Bowman, J. P.; McCammon, S. A.; Brown, J. L.; Nichols, P. D.; McMeekin, T. A. (1997). "Psychroserpens burtonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., and Gelidibacter algens gen. nov., sp. nov., Psychrophilic Bacteria Isolated from Antarctic Lacustrine and Sea Ice Habitats". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (3): 670–677. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-3-670. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9226898.

Further reading

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  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.
  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
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