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Methylomonas scandinavica sp. nov., a new methanotrophic psychrotrophic bacterium isolated from deep igneous rock ground water of Sweden.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Dec 1999
Kalyuzhnaya M G, Khmelenina V N, Kotelnikova S, Holmquist L, Pedersen K, Trotsenko Y A
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Methane-utilizing bacteria were enriched from deep igneous rock environments and affiliated by amplification of functional and phylogenetic gene probes. Type I methanotrophs belonging to the genera Methylomonas and Methylobacter dominated in enrichment cultures from depths below 400 m. A pure culture of an obligate methanotroph (strain SR5) was isolated and characterized. Pink-pigmented motile rods of the new...
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