Description of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov: an obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium.

doi:10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07043.x

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Description of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov: an obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium.

FEMS microbiology letters - 15 Jul 1994

Rainey F A, Donnison A M, Janssen P H, Saul D, Rodrigo A, Bergquist P L, Daniel R M, Stackebrandt E, Morgan H W

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A new obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium is described. The strain designated Tp8T 6331 is differentiated from thermophilic cellulolytic clostridia on the basis of physiological characteristics and phylogenetic position within the Bacillus/Clostridium subphylum of...

Topics

Bacteria, Anaerobic
Cellulose
Genotype
Gram-Negative Anaerobic Bacteria
Gram-Positive Bacteria
Phenotype
Phylogeny

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