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Cellulosimicrobium variabile sp. nov., a cellulolytic bacterium from the hindgut of the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Jul 2002
Bakalidou Agapia, Kämpfer Peter, Berchtold Manfred, Kuhnigk Thomas, Wenzel Marika, König Helmut
Abstract excerpt
A novel cellulolytic and xylanolytic bacterium, strain MX5T, was isolated from the hindgut contents of the Australian termite Mastotermes darwiniensis (Froggatt). The isolate was a facultative anaerobe and had a Gram-positive cell-wall profile. The rod-shaped bacterium formed irregular coryneform and coccoid cells during growth. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rDNA provided evidence that the organism was closely...
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