Arthrobacter flavus is a species of psychrophilic bacteria. It is aerobic, gram-positive, non-spore-forming, non-motile, exhibits a rod-coccus growth cycle and produces a yellow pigment.

Arthrobacter flavus
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Micrococcaceae
Genus: Arthrobacter
Species:
A. flavus
Binomial name
Arthrobacter flavus
Reddy et al. 2000[1]
Type strain
CMS 19Y[1]
DSM 15322
JCM 11496
MTCC 3476

References

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  1. ^ a b Reddy, G.; Aggarwal, R. K.; Matsumoto, G. I.; Shivaji, S. (2000). "Arthrobacter flavus sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium isolated from a pond in McMurdo Dry Valley, Antarctica". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 50 (4): 1553–1561. doi:10.1099/00207713-50-4-1553. ISSN 1466-5026. PMID 10939663.

Further reading

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  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
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