The competitive success of Methanomicrococcus blatticola, a dominant methylotrophic methanogen in the cockroach hindgut, is supported by high substrate affinities and favorable thermodynamics

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 266-275

  Sprenger, Wander W ^a,b   Hackstein, Johannes H P ^a   Keltjens, Jan T ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arthropod hindgut; Hydrogen metabolism; Methanogenic archaea; Methanol respiration; Methanomicrococcus blatticola

Indexed keywords

METHANE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COCKROACH; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); METABOLISM; METHANE; METHANOGENIC BACTERIUM; METHANOL; OBLIGATE BEHAVIOR; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; COCKROACH; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GROWTH RATE; HINDLIMB; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; METHANOGEN; METHANOGENESIS; METHANOMICROBIALES; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT; SPECIES DOMINANCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HYDROGEN; METHANE; METHANOL; METHANOSARCINACEAE; OXYGEN; PERIPLANETA; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARTHROPODA; BLATTARIA; METHANIMICROCOCCUS BLATTICOLA; METHANOSARCINA BARKERI; METHANOSPHAERA STADTMANAE;

EID: 34247093387     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00287.x     Document Type: Article

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