Psychroflexus torquis

Psychroflexus torquis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Psychroflexus
Species: P. torquis
Binomial name
Psychroflexus torquis
Bowman et al. 1999

Psychroflexus torquis is a 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]

References

  1. 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.

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