Collimonas [SEP] parent taxon
Collimonas
Collimonas is a genus of bacteria in the family Oxalobacteraceae. All three species share the ability to lyse chitin and use fungal hyphae as a source of food.
application of fertilizer has a complicated impact on the source of carbon, either increasing or decreasing the organic carbon in the soil.
"Collimonas" is one of the species that are capable of living in the oligotrophic soil. One common feature of the environments where "Collimonas" lives is the presence of fungi, because "Collimonas" have the ability of not only hydrolyzing the chitin produced by fungi for nutrients, but also producing materials (e.g., "P. fluorescens" 2-79) to protect themselves from fungal infection