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Sporomusa aerivorans sp. nov., an oxygen-reducing homoacetogenic bacterium from the gut of a soil-feeding termite.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Sept 2003
Boga Hamadi I, Ludwig Wolfgang, Brune Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Previously undescribed, homoacetogenic bacteria were isolated from gut homogenates of the soil-feeding termite Thoracotermes macrothorax. The isolates were slightly curved, banana-shaped rods (0.6-0.7x1.3-7.0 micro m) and were motile by one or more lateral flagella. In older cultures, cells formed club-like sporangia that developed into terminal, heat-resistant endospores. Cells stained Gram-positive but were...
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