Isolation and properties of methanesulfonate-degrading Afipia felis from Antarctica and comparison with other strains of A. felis

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Moosvi, S. Azra, Pacheco, Catarina, McDonald, Ian, De Marco, Paolo, Pearce, David, Kelly, Donovan, Wood, Ann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2005
• Subjects: C500 Microbiology; Antarctic; Signy Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/25135/; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2004.00661.x

Three novel strains of methylotrophic Afipia felis were isolated from several locations on Signy Island, Antarctica, and a fourth from estuary sediment from the River Douro, Portugal. They were identified as strains of the α-2 proteobacterium A. felis by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Two strains...