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. 1984 Jan;47(1):213–215. doi: 10.1128/aem.47.1.213-215.1984

Pragmatic criteria to distinguish psychrophiles and psychrotrophs in ecological systems.

J A Gow, F H Mills
PMCID: PMC239641  PMID: 6696419

Abstract

Optimal incubation times and temperatures were determined for populations of psychrophilic and psychrotrophic bacteria from a seasonally cold ocean. The application of conventional pragmatic criteria did not differentiate the two populations, although they could be distinguished by growth at two temperatures.

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