Psychrobacter glacincola sp. nov., a halotolerant, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from Antarctic sea ice

• Published in: Systematic and Applied Microbiology
• Main Authors: Bowman, JP, Nichols, DS, McMeekin, TA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Urban & Fischer Verlag 1997
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Microbiology; Bacteriology; Amery; Amery Ice Shelf; Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(97)80067-7; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/10405

Two groups of halotolerant, strictly oxidative, non-motile bacterial strains with a distinct coccoidal morphology were isolated from predominantly congelation sea ice collected from the Vestfold Hills area (69S 78E) and from anchor ice of the Amery Ice Shelf (69S 71E) in Eastern Antarctica. One grou...