MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection

Stefano Schiaparelli; Angelina Lo Giudice

doi:10.15468/ev31zc

MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection

Citation

Schiaparelli S, Lo Giudice A (2019): MNA CIBAN Italian Antarctic Bacterial Culture Collection. v1.3. Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa). Dataset/Occurrence. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=mna_italian_antarctic_bacteria_culture_collection&v=1.3 https://doi.org/10.15468/ev31zc accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-05-23.

Description

The Italian Collection of Antarctic Bacteria (Collezione Italiana Batteri Antarctici; CIBAN) was established in 1989 at the Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences of the University of Messina. CIBAN is one of the few collections in the world dedicated to Antarctic bacteria and, since its inception, it has grown to include 515 cold-adapted strains belonging to 69 Genera. Many of these strains derive from the Terra Nova Bay marine area and hav been extracted from seawater, sediment, and benthic organisms. CIBAN also hosts bacterial isolates from the continent.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The MNA-CIBAN culture collection is specialized in Antarctic bacteria.

Sampling

Bacteria were extracted from seawater, sediment, and benthic organisms, mainly from the Terra Nova Bay marine area in East Antarctica. CIBAN also hosts bacterial isolates from the continent.

Quality Control

Strains are routinely streaked on agar plates every six months to control purity and viability.

Method steps

All cultures are maintained in duplicate on agar slants at 4 °C. Antarctic strains are also preserved by freezing cell suspensions at – 80 °C in liquid broth to which 20% glycerol is added.

Taxonomic Coverages

Cell cultures of Bacteria

Bacteria
common name: Bacteria rank: domain

Geographic Coverages

The Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean, mainly around east Antarctica.

Bibliographic Citations

Lo Giudice, A., Brilli, M., Bruni, V., de Domenico, M., Fani, R., and Michaud, L. (2007). Bacterium-bacterium inhibitory interactions among psychrotrophic bacteria isolated from Antarctic seawater (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 60, 383–396. doi: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00300.x -
Michaud, L., Cello, D. F., Brilli, M., Fani, R., Giudice, L. A., & Bruni, V. (2004). Biodiversity of cultivable psychrotrophic marine bacteria isolated from Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea, Antarctica). FEMS Microbiology Letters, 230(1), 63-71. -
Lo Giudice, A., Bruni, V., & Michaud, L. (2007). Characterization of Antarctic psychrotrophic bacteria with antibacterial activities against terrestrial microorganisms. Journal of Basic Microbiology, 47(6), 496-505. -
Mangano, S., Michaud, L., Caruso, C., Brilli, M., Bruni, V., Fani, R., & Giudice, A. L. (2009). Antagonistic interactions between psychrotrophic cultivable bacteria isolated from Antarctic sponges: a preliminary analysis. Research in Microbiology, 160(1), 27-37. -
Papaleo, M. C., Fondi, M., Maida, I., Perrin, E., Giudice, A. L., Michaud, L., ... & Fani, R. (2012). Sponge-associated microbial Antarctic communities exhibiting antimicrobial activity against Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria. Biotechnology advances, 30(1), 272-293. -
Mangano, S., Caruso, C., Michaud, L., & Giudice, A. L. (2018). First evidence of quorum sensing activity in bacteria associated with Antarctic sponges. Polar Biology, 1-11. -
Giudice, A. L., Casella, P., Bruni, V., & Michaud, L. (2013). Response of bacterial isolates from Antarctic shallow sediments towards heavy metals, antibiotics and polychlorinated biphenyls. Ecotoxicology, 22(2), 240-250. -
Giudice, A. L., Casella, P., Caruso, C., Mangano, S., Bruni, V., De Domenico, M., & Michaud, L. (2010). Occurrence and characterization of psychrotolerant hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria from surface seawater along the Victoria Land coast (Antarctica). Polar biology, 33(7), 929-943. -

Contacts

Stefano Schiaparelli
originator
Italian National Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa)
Corso Europa
Genoa
16166
IT
email: stefano.schiparelli@unige.it

Angelina Lo Giudice
originator
Italian National Research Council
IT

Maxime Sweetlove
metadata author
position: Research assistent
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Rue Vautier 29
Brussels
1000
BE
email: msweetlove@naturalsciences.be

Stefano Schiaparelli
administrative point of contact
Italian National Museum (MNA, Section of Genoa)
Corso Europa
Genoa
16166
IT
email: stefano.schiparelli@unige.it

Angelina Lo Giudice
administrative point of contact
Italian National Research Council
IT
email: alogiudice@unime.it