Trophic interaction of the aerotolerant anaerobe Clostridium intestinale and the acetogen Sporomusa rhizae sp. nov. isolated from roots of the black needlerush Juncus roemerianus

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1209-1219

  Gößner, Anita S ^a   Küsel, Kirsten ^a,c   Schulz, Daria ^a   Trenz, Sonja ^a   Acker, George ^a   Lovell, Charles R ^b   Drake, Harold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUTYRIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; FORMIC ACID; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; RNA 16S;

ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; ANAEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INTESTINALE; COCULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOSPHERE; SALT MARSH; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES HABITAT; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPOROGENESIS; SPOROMUSA RHIZAE;

ACETIC ACID; ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; ANGIOSPERMS; BUTYRATES; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CLOSTRIDIUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FERMENTATION; FORMIC ACIDS; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

ACIDAMINOCOCCACEAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INTESTINALE; JUNCUS; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SPOROMUSA;

EID: 33645552637     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28725-0     Document Type: Article

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