Colwellia
| Colwellia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Alteromonadales |
| Family: | Colwelliaceae |
| Genus: | Colwellia Deming et al. 1988 |
| Type species | |
| Colwellia psychrerythraea | |
| Species | |
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C. aestuarii | |
Colwellia is a genus of deep-sea psychrophilic, piezophilic, and facultative anaerobic bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae. Colwellia grows at a temperature at −20 °C by producing cryoprotective polymeric substances.
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