Clostridium vincentii sp. nov., a new obligately anaerobic, saccharolytic, psychrophilic bacterium isolated from low-salinity pond sediment of the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

Archives of Microbiology

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 54-60

  Mountfort, Douglas O ^a   Rainey, Frederick A ^b   Burghardt, Jutta ^b   Kaspar, Heinrich F ^a   Stackebrandt, Erko ^b  

^a CAWTHRON INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

^b IDSMZ Ger Collec Microorganisms C   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Clostridium vincentii; obligate anaerobe saccharophile; psychrophile

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CELL CULTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA DETERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERMENTATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLUCOSE; LACTOSE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 0031039325     PISSN: 03028933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002030050416     Document Type: Article

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