Name: Colwellia polaris 537
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 134336

Type strain:

Species: Colwellia polaris

Strain Designation: 537

Culture col. no.: CGMCC 1.6132, JCM 13952

Strain history: D.-C. Zhang and P.-J. Zhou 537.

NCBI tax ID(s): 326537 (species)

Section

Colwellia polaris 537 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from sea-ice samples.

Gram-negative
motile
rod-shaped
aerobe
16S sequence
Bacteria

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Pseudomonadota*
	Class	*Gammaproteobacteria*
	Order	*Alteromonadales*
	Family	*Colwelliaceae*
	Genus	*Colwellia*
	Species	**Colwellia polaris**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Colwellia polaris Zhang et al. 2008

Synonym

"Cognaticolwellia polaris"

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #32508]	Gram stain	negative

[Ref.: #32508]	Cell length	0.9-4 µm

[Ref.: #32508]	Cell width	0.6-0.9 µm

[Ref.: #32508]	Cell shape	rod-shaped

[Ref.: #32508]	Motility	yes

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Pigment production

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

		Temperature
[Ref.: #32508]	growth	04-26 °C
[Ref.: #32508]	optimum	20-21 °C
[Ref.: #67770]	growth	21 °C

[Ref.: #32508]	Temperature range	psychrophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	psychrophilic

	pH	Kind of pH		pH
[Ref.: #32508]			optimum	06-09
[Ref.: #32508]			growth	05-10

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

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Oxygen tolerance

aerobe

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Ability of spore formation

	Halophily	Salt	Tested relation		Salt conc.
[Ref.: #32508]		NaCl		growth	01-06	%
[Ref.: #32508]		NaCl		optimum	01-06	%

[Ref.: #32508]	Observation	aggregates in chains
[Ref.: #67770]	Observation	quinones: Q-8

	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
[Ref.: #32508]	arabinose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	fructose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	galactose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	glucose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	glycerol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	mannitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	mannose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	melibiose ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	pyruvate ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	sorbitol ChEBI	+	carbon source
[Ref.: #32508]	sucrose ChEBI	+	carbon source
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	Enzymes	Enzyme	Enzyme activity	EC number
[Ref.: #32508]		catalase	+	1.11.1.6
[Ref.: #32508]		cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #32508]	Sample type/isolated from	sea-ice samples

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Sea ice collected from the Canadian Basin in the Arctic Ocean
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Isolation sources categories

#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Ice
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine

What are isolation sources categories?

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Global distribution of 16S sequence DQ007434 (>99% sequence identity) for Colwellia polaris from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	286
Soil Samples
Animal Samples	28
Plant Samples	3
Total Samples	317

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #32508]	Colwellia polaris strain 537 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ007434	1501	GenBank	326537 tax ID

[Ref.: #32508]	GC-content	38.9 mol%
[Ref.: #67770]	GC-content	38.9 mol%	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

CGMCC 1.6132, JCM 13952

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Colwellia polaris sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from Arctic sea ice.	Zhang DC, Yu Y, Xin YH, Liu HC, Zhou PJ, Zhou YG	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65596-0	2008	*

References

#20215

Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )

#32508

Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28728 (see below)

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#69479

João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .

#28728

IJSEM 1931 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.65596-0 , PubMed 18676483 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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