Sporomusa aerivorans sp. nov., an oxygen-reducing homoacetogenic bacterium from the gut of a soil-feeding termite

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1397-1404

  Boga, Hamadi I ^a,c   Ludwig, Wolfgang ^b   Brune, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c KENYATTA UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALCOHOL; BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELL EXTRACT; CITRIC ACID; CYTOCHROME; CYTOSINE; FORMIC ACID; FUMARIC ACID; GUANOSINE; HEXOSE; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; MALIC ACID; MANNITOL; METHANOL; OXALOACETIC ACID; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM HYDROXIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID; RNA 16S; SUCCINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTILITY; DECARBOXYLATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FERMENTATION MEDIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT TOLERANCE; HOMOGENATE; ISOPTERA; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPORANGIUM; SPOROMUSA AERIVORANS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACETIC ACID; ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; CYTOCHROMES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ISOPTERA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ISOPTERA; MACROTHORAX; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPOROMUSA; SPOROMUSA AERIVORANS;

EID: 0141704076     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.02534-0     Document Type: Article

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