Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Abstract
In termite hindguts, fermentative production of acetate - a major carbon and energy source for the insect - depends on efficient removal of inwardly diffusing oxygen by microbes residing on and near the hindgut wall. However, little is known about the identity of these organisms or about the substrate(s) used to support their respiratory activity. A cultivation-based approach was used to isolate O2-consuming organisms from hindguts of Reticulitermes flavipes. A consistently greater (albeit not statistically significant) number of colonies developed under hypoxia (2% [vol/vol] O 2) than under air, and the increase coincided with the appearance of morphologically distinct colonies of a novel, rod-shaped, obligately microaerophilic β-proteobacterium that was
First Page
6819
Last Page
6828
DOI
10.1128/AEM.00786-07
Publication Date
11-1-2007
Recommended Citation
Wertz, John T. and Breznak, John A., "Stenoxybacter acetivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an acetate-oxidizing obligate microaerophile among diverse O2-consuming bacteria from termite guts" (2007). University Faculty Publications and Creative Works. 556.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/calvin_facultypubs/556