Flavobacterium flevense

Flavobacterium flevense is a freshwater agar-degrading bacterium in the order Flavobacteriales.[1] It is a gram-negative bacterium capable of surviving extreme cold temperatures (psychrophilic).

Flavobacterium flevense
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Flavobacterium
Species:
F. flevense
Binomial name
Flavobacterium flevense
(van der Meulen et al. 1974) Bernardet et al. 1996
Synonyms
  • Cytophaga flevensis

It was first isolated in IJsselmeer, an inland bay in the Netherlands that is believed to have gradually separated from the open North Sea.[2] It does not produce flexirubin type pigments, making it an outlier in the non-marine Cytophaga-Flavobacteria species [2].Therefore, it is hypothesized that F. flevense was originally a marine organism without flexirubin pigment, that gradually adapted to freshwater conditions as the seawater was supplemented with freshwater.

References

  1. Podstawka, Adam. "Flavobacterium flevense A-34 | Type strain | DSM 1076, ATCC 27944, IAM 14303 | BacDiveID:5513". bacdive.dsmz.de. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  2. Reichenbach, Hans (2006), Dworkin, Martin; Falkow, Stanley; Rosenberg, Eugene; Schleifer, Karl-Heinz (eds.), "The Order Cytophagales", The Prokaryotes: Volume 7: Proteobacteria: Delta, Epsilon Subclass, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 549–590, doi:10.1007/0-387-30747-8_20, ISBN 978-0-387-30747-3, retrieved 2021-04-02
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