Characterisation of Waterborne Psychrophilic Massilia Isolates with Violacein Production and Description of Massilia antarctica sp. nov.

• Published in: Microorganisms
• Main Authors: Sedláček, Ivo, Holochová, Pavla, Busse, Hans-Jürgen, Koublová, Vendula, Králová, Stanislava, Švec, Pavel, Sobotka, Roman, Staňková, Eva, Pilný, Jan, Šedo, Ondrej, Smolíková, Jana, Sedlář, Karel
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2022
• Subjects: Massilia; violacein; psychrophilic; description; whole-genome sequencing; Antarctica; Eagle Island; Ross Island; Antarc*; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11012/204462; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10040704

A group of seven bacterial strains producing blue-purple pigmented colonies on R2A agar was isolated from freshwater samples collected in a deglaciated part of James Ross Island and Eagle Island, Antarctica, from 2017-2019. The isolates were psychrophilic, oligotrophic, resistant to chloramphenicol,...