Antarctobacter

• Main Authors: Labrenz, Matthias, Hirsch, Peter
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: South Pole; Antarc*; Antarctica; South pole
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00852; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118960608.gbm00852; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00852; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00852

Ant.arc' to.bac.ter . M.L. Antarctica name of the South Pole continent; derived from Gr. pref. anti against (on the other side); Gr. adj. arcticos northern; M.L. masc. n. bacter Gr. n. baktron a rod or staff; Antarctobacter a rod‐shaped bacterium from Antarctica. Proteobacteria / Alphaproteobacteria / Rhodobacterales / Rhodobacteraceae / Antarctobacter Rods , one or both cell poles narrower , sizes vary due to age and growth conditions : 0 . 8–1 . 2 × 2 . 0–33 . 6 µm . Rosettes are formed. Gram negative. Daughter cells may be motile . No resting stages are known. Aerobic , with a strictly respiratory type of metabolism. Intracellular granules of poly‐β‐hydroxybutyrate are present . Cells have an absolute requirement for Na + . Temperature range <3–43.5°C, salinity range <1.0 to <10.0% NaCl and <10 to >150‰ of artificial seawater (ASW), pH range 5.3 to >9. Oxidase and catalase positive . Do not grow photoautotrophically with H 2 /CO 2 (80:20) or photoorganotrophically with acetate or glutamate. Do not contain bacteriochlorophyll a (bchl a ). Occur in marine habitats. The mol % G + C of the DNA is : 62–63. Type species : Antarctobacter heliothermus Labrenz, Collins, Lawson, Tindall, Braker and Hirsch 1998, 1371.