Collimonas
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| Collimonas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Oxalobacteraceae |
| Genus: | Collimonas de Boer et al. 2004 |
| Species[1] | |
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Collimonas arenae | |
Collimonas is a genus of bacteria in the family Oxalobacteraceae.[2] Culturable representatives of this genus have the ability to lyse chitin, to use fungal hyphae as a source of food, to produce antifungal molecules and to weather minerals .[3][4][5][6]
To date, 6 species have been described: Collimonas fungivorans, Collimonas pratensis, Collimonas arenae, Collimonas antrihumi, Collimonas humicola, Collimonas silvisoli.[7][8][9][10]
