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===Cell Structure and Ecology===
===Cell Structure and Ecology===
[[File:Micrograph.png‎|300px|thumb|right|A micrograph of the organism, note the gas vacuoles at the top]]


===Ecology===
===Ecology===
[[File:Micrograph.png‎|300px|thumb|right|A micrograph of the organism, note the gas vacuoles at the top]]
 
===Related Bacterial Species===
In 2004 another organism was proposed for the genus Polaromonas, Polaramonas Napthalenivorans CJ2, which is an aquatic gram-negative, non-spore formin, non-motile coccus. It is capable of growth with naphthalene as its sole carbon and energy source.[3]
 
===Pathology===
At this time, there

Revision as of 19:55, 12 April 2013

Higher Order Taxa

Bacteria; Proteobacteria; Betaproteobacteria; Burkholderiales; Comamonadaceae; Polaromonas

Description and Significance

Palmer Station, where the organism was first found, is located on the south end of Anvers Island

Genome

Cell Structure and Ecology

A micrograph of the organism, note the gas vacuoles at the top

Ecology

Related Bacterial Species

In 2004 another organism was proposed for the genus Polaromonas, Polaramonas Napthalenivorans CJ2, which is an aquatic gram-negative, non-spore formin, non-motile coccus. It is capable of growth with naphthalene as its sole carbon and energy source.[3]

Pathology

At this time, there