Syntrophomonas zehnderi

Syntrophomonas zehnderi is a bacterium. It is anaerobic, syntrophic (in association with methanogens, particularly Methanobacterium formicicum) and fatty acid-oxidizing. The type strain is OL-4T (=DSM 17840T =JCM 13948T). Cells are slightly curved, non-motile rods.[1]

Syntrophomonas zehnderi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Clostridiales
Family:
Syntrophomonadaceae
Genus:
Syntrophomonas
Species:
S. zehnderi
Binomial name
Syntrophomonas zehnderi
Sousa et al. 2007

References
  1. Diana Z. Sousa; Hauke Smidt; M. Madalena Alves & Alfons J. M. Stams (March 2007). "Syntrophomonas zehnderi sp. nov., an anaerobe that degrades long-chain fatty acids in co-culture with Methanobacterium formicicum". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (Pt 3): 609–615. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64734-0. PMID 17329794.

Further reading
  • Hansen, Kaare H., Birgitte K. Ahring, and Lutgarde Raskin. "Quantification of syntrophic fatty acid-β-oxidizing bacteria in a mesophilic biogas reactor by oligonucleotide probe hybridization." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65.11 (1999): 4767-4774.
  • Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey’s manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250-2251.
  • Alfons J. M. Stams; Diana Z. Sousa; Robbert Kleerebezem & Caroline M. Plugge (2012). "Role of syntrophic microbial communities in high-rate methanogenic bioreactors". Water Science and Technology. 66 (2): 352–362. doi:10.2166/wst.2012.192. PMID 22699340.
  • Cavaleiro, A.J.; Sousa, D.Z.; Alves, M.M. (2010). "Methane production from oleate: Assessing the bioaugmentation potential of Syntrophomonas zehnderi". Water Research. 44 (17): 4940–4947. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.039. ISSN 0043-1354. PMID 20696454.


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