The effect of a methanogen, Methanobrevibacter smithii, on the growth rate, organic acid production, and specific ATP activity of three predominant ruminal cellulolytic bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 176-180

  Rychlik, Jennifer L ^a,b   May, Tammy ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBOXYLIC ACID; METHANE;

ACID SECRETION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES; GROWTH RATE; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTON TRANSPORT; RUMEN MICROORGANISM; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CELL DIVISION; CELLULOSE; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FATTY ACIDS; METHANE; METHANOBACTERIACEAE; RUMEN; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; FIBROBACTER; FIBROBACTER SUCCINOGENES SUBSP. SUCCINOGENES; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOBREVIBACTER SMITHII; RUMINOCOCCUS ALBUS 8; RUMINOCOCCUS FLAVEFACIENS;

EID: 0033950725     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849910035     Document Type: Article

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