Methylophaga sulfidovorans

Methylophaga sulfidovorans is an obligately methylotrophic, aerobic, dimethylsulfide-oxidizing bacterium. It is Gram-negative, oval, with strain RB-1.[1]

Methylophaga sulfidovorans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Thiotrichales
Family: Piscirickettsiaceae
Genus: Methylophaga
Species:
M. sulfidovorans
Binomial name
Methylophaga sulfidovorans
de Zwart et al. 1998

References

  1. Dezwart, J; Nelisse, P; Kuenen, J (1996). "Isolation and characterization of sp. nov.: an obligately methylotrophic, aerobic, dimethylsulfide oxidizing bacterium from a microbial mat". FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 20 (4): 261–270. doi:10.1016/0168-6496(96)00038-4. ISSN 0168-6496.

Further reading

  • De Zwart, J., J. Sluis, and J. Gijs Kuenen. "Competition for Dimethyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Sulfide by Methylophaga sulfidovorans and Thiobacillus thioparus T5 in Continuous Cultures." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63.8 (1997): 3318–3322.
  • de Zwart, Jolyn Martha Maria. "Ecophysiology and Modeling of DMS metabolism by Methylophaga sulfidovorans." (1997).


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