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The Family Psychromonadaceae

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The Prokaryotes

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The family Psychromonadaceae, within the order Alteromonadales, includes only the genus Psychromonas; it is closely related to the three families Pseudoalteromonadaceae, Colwelliaceae, and Idiomarinaceae. The main habitats of the family Psychromonadaceae appear to be marine, sea ice, or saline aquatic environments, from which original cultures are isolated. Cells can be Gram-negative rods or oval cells, non-spore, and motile or nonmotile. The flagellum may be single or subpolar, sheathed or unsheathed. The cells grow at temperatures less than 37 °C. They are facultative anaerobes, but some species may grow to be aerotolerant anaerobes or aerobes. They use carbohydrates for energy for growth. Oxidase is positive and catalase is variable. The major isoprenoid quinone is Q-8. The predominant cellular fatty acids are C16:0 and C16:1. The abundance ratio of unsaturated fatty acids was ≥50 %. P. ingrahamii 37T, which can grow at −12 °C, underwent genomic analysis. Some species produced C20:5ω3 and/or C22:6. The G+C DNA is 38–43.8 mol%. This chapter is a modified and updated version of previously published family descriptions (Ivanova et al. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:1773–1788, 2004).

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  1. JAMSTEC-Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan

    Masayuki Miyazaki & Yuichi Nogi

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  1. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  2. Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  3. Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Edward F. DeLong

  4. Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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  5. Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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  6. Laboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Ilha do Fundão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Fabiano Thompson

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Miyazaki, M., Nogi, Y. (2014). The Family Psychromonadaceae . In: Rosenberg, E., DeLong, E.F., Lory, S., Stackebrandt, E., Thompson, F. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38922-1_228

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