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Colwellia psychrotropica

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Colwellia psychrotropica is a psychrophilic Antarctic bacterial species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid. It is nonpigmented, curved-rod-like in shape, exhibiting facultative anaerobic growth and possessing an absolute requirement for sea water. Its type strain is ACAM 179^T.^[1]

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^ Bowman, J. P.; Gosink, J. J.; McCammon, S. A.; Lewis, T. E.; Nichols, D. S.; Nichols, P. D.; Skerratt, J. H.; Staley, J. T.; McMeekin, T. A. (1998). "Colwellia demingiae sp. nov., Colwellia hornerae sp. nov., Colwellia rossensis sp. nov. and Colwellia psychrotropica sp. nov.: psychrophilic Antarctic species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid (22: 63)". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48 (4): 1171–1180. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1171. ISSN 0020-7713.

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Colwellia psychrotropica: Brief Summary

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Colwellia psychrotropica is a psychrophilic Antarctic bacterial species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid. It is nonpigmented, curved-rod-like in shape, exhibiting facultative anaerobic growth and possessing an absolute requirement for sea water. Its type strain is ACAM 179T.

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