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Gelidibacter algens

species of bacterium

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ16982233 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gelidibacter algens is a species of psychrophilic, yellow-pigmented bacteria. It is saccharolytic, exhibits rapid gliding motility, and its cells are rod-like to filamentous. Its type strain is ACAM 536.

References

Further reading

Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 7: Proteobacteria: Delta and Epsilon Subclasses. Deeply Rooting Bacteria. Vol. 7. Springer, 2006.

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“Gelidibacter algens” enters the record as species of bacterium. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gelidibacter, algens and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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The date and method of observation matter as much as the stated conclusion, especially where classification or consensus has changed. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16982233. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gelidibacter algens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.