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Collimonas fungivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a chitinolytic soil bacterium with the ability to grow on living fungal hyphae.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 May 2004
de Boer Wietse, Leveau Johan H J, Kowalchuk George A, Gunnewiek Paulien J A Klein, Abeln Edwin C A, Figge Marian J, Sjollema Klaas, Janse Jaap D, van Veen Johannes A
Abstract excerpt
A polyphasic approach was used to describe the phylogenetic position of 22 chitinolytic bacterial isolates that were able to grow at the expense of intact, living hyphae of several soil fungi. These isolates, which were found in slightly acidic dune soils in the Netherlands, were strictly aerobic, Gram-negative rods. Cells grown in liquid cultures were flagellated and possessed pili. A wide range of sugars,...
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