Arthrobacter livingstonensis explained

Arthrobacter livingstonensis is a species of bacteria. It is psychrotolerant, halotolerant, Gram-positive, motile and facultatively anaerobic. It possesses a rod–coccus cycle.

A strain found in 2020 in Antarctica was able to synthesize undecane.^[1]

Further reading

• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
• Mages. I. S.. Frodl. R.. Bernard. K. A.. Funke. G.. Identities of Arthrobacter spp. and Arthrobacter-like Bacteria Encountered in Human Clinical Specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 46. 9. 2008. 2980–2986. 0095-1137. 10.1128/JCM.00658-08. 18650355. 2546711.

External links

• • LPSN
• Type strain of Arthrobacter livingstonensis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Notes and References

1. Passarini . Michel Rodrigo Zambrano . e Silva . Tiago Rodrigues . Bernal . Suzan Prado Fernandes . Cecchet . Nathália Luana . Sartoratto . Adilson . Boroski . Marcela . Duarte . Alysson Wagner Fernandes . Ottoni . Júlia Ronzella . Rosa . Luiz Henrique . de Oliveira . Valéria Maia . 2020-11-01 . Undecane production by cold-adapted bacteria from Antarctica . Extremophiles . en . 24 . 6 . 863–873 . 10.1007/s00792-020-01200-1 . 1433-4909.