Psychrosinus fermentans gen. nov., sp. nov., a lactate-fermenting bacterium from near-freezing oxycline waters of a meromictic Antarctic lake

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-127

  Sattley, W Matthew ^a,b   Jung, Deborah O ^a   Madigan, Michael T ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MidAmerica Nazarene University   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Lactate fermentation; Lake Fryxell; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Psychrophile

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CHEMICAL COMPOUND; ICE; LACTIC ACID; OXYCLINE; PROPIONIC ACID; RNA 16S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOSPORE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; FERMENTATION; FREEZING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENUS; LAKE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PECTINATUS; PELOSINUS FERMENTANS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHROPHILIC BACTERIUM; PSYCHROSINUS FERMENTANS; SELENOMONAS; SPECIES; WATER SAMPLING;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON; FERMENTATION; FREEZING; FRESH WATER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PECTINATUS; SELENOMONAS; SPOROMUSA;

EID: 50949094876     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01300.x     Document Type: Article

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