Psychroflexus torquis
Psychroflexus torquis is a species of bacterium. It is psychrophilic and its type strain is strain ACAM 623T. It has the ability to synthesize the polyunsaturated fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid and arachidonic acid.[1]
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| Species: | P. torquis |
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| Psychroflexus torquis Bowman et al. 1999 | |
References
- Bowman, J. P.; McCammon, S. A.; Lewis, T.; Skerratt, J. H.; Brown, J. L.; Nichols, D. S.; McMeekin, T. A. (1998). "Psychroflexus torquis gen. nov., sp. nov. a psychrophilic species from Antarctic sea ice, and reclassification of Flavobacterium gondwanense (Dobson et al. 1993) as Psychroflexus gondwanense gen. nov., comb. nov". Microbiology. 144 (6): 1601–1609. doi:10.1099/00221287-144-6-1601. ISSN 1350-0872. PMID 9639931.
Further reading
- Feng, Shi; Powell, Shane M; Wilson, Richard; Bowman, John P (2013). "Light-stimulated growth of proteorhodopsin-bearing sea-ice psychrophile Psychroflexus torquis is salinity dependent". The ISME Journal. 7 (11): 2206–2213. doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.97. ISSN 1751-7362. PMC 3806269. PMID 23788334.
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