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Colwellia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Alteromonadales
Family:	Colwelliaceae
Genus:	Colwellia Deming et al. 1988
Type species
Colwellia psychrerythraea
Species
C. aestuarii C. agarivorans C. aquaemaris C. arctica C. asteriadis C. beringensis C. chukchiensis C. demingiae C. echini C. hadaliensis C. hornerae C. marinimaniae C. maris C. meonggei C. mytili C. piezophila C. polaris C. psychrerythraea C. psychrotropica C. rossensis C. sediminilitoris

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.

References

1. ^ LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de
2. UniProt
3. Stanley Falkow, ed. (2006). Proteobacteria : Gamma subclass (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Springer. ISBN 0-387-25496-X.
4. Rosa Margesin; Franz Schinner; Jean-Claude Marx; Charles Gerday, eds. (2008). Psychrophiles from biodiversity to biotechnology. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-74335-4.
5. Sébert, Philippe, ed. (2010). Comparative high pressure biology. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4398-4361-1.
6. Guido di Prisco; Cinzia Verde, eds. (2012). Adaptation and evolution in marine environments (2012 ed.). Heidelberg: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-27352-0.

Further reading

• Mason, Olivia U.; Han, James; Woyke, Tanja; Jansson, Janet K. (8 July 2014). "Single-cell genomics reveals features of a Colwellia species that was dominant during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill". Frontiers in Microbiology. 5: 332. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00332. PMC 4085564. PMID 25071745.
• Yumoto, Isao, ed. (2013). Cold-adapted microorganisms. Norfolk: Caister Academic Press. ISBN 978-1-908230-26-3.
• Buller, Nicky B (2011). Bacteria and fungi from fish and other aquatic animals ... : Cabi. ISBN 978-1-84593-805-5.
• Paul, John H., ed. (2001). Methods in microbiology (Repr. ed.). San Diego, London: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-521530-4.
• Bej, Asim K.; Aislabie, Jackie; Atlas, Ronald M., eds. (2010). Polar microbiology the ecology, biodiversity, and bioremediation potential of microorganisms in extremely cold environments. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-4200-8388-0.
• Jain, Sudhir K.; Khan, Abdul Arif; Rai, Mahendra K., eds. (2010). Geomicrobiology. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4398-4510-3.
• Horikoshi, Koki, ed. (2011). Extremophiles handbook. Tokyo: Springer. ISBN 978-4-431-53897-4.

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