Halomonas titanicae
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Halomonas titanicae is a species of bacteria from the genus Halomonas that was discovered in2009 on a piece of rust from the wreck of the RMS Titanic . This species belongs all kinds of Proteobacteria of the gram-negative bacteria and their metabolism is heterotrophic and aerobic .
Place of discovery
The wreck of the Titanic now has orange beards made of rust ( rusticles ) in numerous places , which are formed and colonized by numerous types of bacteria. The researchers then isolated bacteria from one of these porous rust cones recovered from a Russian submersible in 1991 , which they initially named with the abbreviation BH1T .
They were able to prove that the species belongs to the bacterial genus Halomonas and that the characteristics of this strain are sufficiently different in comparison to those of the other generic representatives to be taxonomically assigned to a species of its own.
meaning
According to the scientists, this bacterium, along with other iron-oxidizing microorganisms, is partly responsible for the slow, pitting-induced disintegration of the wreck of the former luxury liner, which sank in 1912, and they assume that they play a fundamental role in the breakdown of iron structures underwater. In their opinion, this new finding is likely to have an important role in the planning, construction and maintenance of modern underwater structures such as pipelines .
See also
literature
- Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Bhavleen Kaur, Henrietta Mann, Antonio Ventosa: Halomonas titanicae sp. nov, a halophilic bacterium isolated from the RMS Titanic. In: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM). Volume 60, number 12, December 2010, pp. 2768-2774, doi : 10.1099 / ijs.0.020628-0 .