Glaciecola

• Main Author: Bowman, John P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01092; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2F9781118960608.gbm01092; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01092; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm01092

Gla.ci.e' co.la . L. fem. n. glacies ice; L. gen. n. incola an inhabitant; M.L. fem. n. Glaciecola inhabitant of ice. Proteobacteria / Gammaproteobacteria / Alteromonadales / Alteromonadaceae / Glaciecola Slender rod‐shaped cells, 0.2–0.4 × 1.0–5.0 μm. May be slightly curved, curved, or spiral . Gram negative. Motile . Nonsporeforming. Aerobic , having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the only known terminal electron acceptor. Chemoheterotrophic. Psychrophilic , growing best at temperatures well below room temperature. In liquid media, the maximal growth temperature for most strains is at about 25–26°C; on agar media, no growth occurs above 20°C. Seawater is required for growth. Oxidase and catalase positive . Major fatty acids are hexadecaenoic acid (C 16:1 ω7c ), hexadecanoic acid (C 16:0 ), and octadecaenoic acid (C 18:1 ω7c ). Belongs to the Gammaproteobacteria . Habitat: Antarctic sea‐ice diatom assemblages. The mol % G + C of the DNA is : 40–46. Type species : Glaciecola punicea Bowman, McCammon, Brown and McMeekin 1 9 9 8b, 1220.