Collimonas

Collimonas is a genus of bacteria in the family Oxalobacteraceae.[2] All three species share the ability to lyse chitin and use fungal hyphae as a source of food.[3]

Collimonas
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Collimonas

de Boer et al. 2004
Species

Collimonas arenae[1]
Collimonas fungivorans[1]
Collimonas pratensis[1]

References

  1. Collimonas arenae - Information on Collimonas arenae - Encyclopedia of Life
  2. de Boer W, Leveau JH, Kowalchuk GA, Klein Gunnewiek PJ, Abeln EC, Figge MJ, Sjollema K, Janse JD, van Veen JA (2004). "Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (Pt 3): 857–64. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02920-0. PMID 15143036. Archived from the original on 2013-04-15.
  3. E-MTAB-349 < Experiments < ArrayExpress < EMBL-EBI


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