Clostridium stercorarium

Clostridium stercorarium is a cellulolytic thermophilic bacterium. It is anaerobic, spore-forming and saccharoclastic, with cells being rod-shaped and 0.7 to 0.8 by 2.7 to 7.7 µm in size.[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

Clostridium stercorarium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Division:
Class:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
Cl. stercorarium
Binomial name
Clostridium stercorarium
Madden 1983

References

  1. Madden, R. H. (1983). "Isolation and Characterization of Clostridium stercorarium sp. nov., Cellulolytic Thermophile". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 33 (4): 837–840. doi:10.1099/00207713-33-4-837. ISSN 0020-7713.
  2. Poehlein, A.; Zverlov, V. V.; Daniel, R.; Schwarz, W. H.; Liebl, W. (2013). "Complete Genome Sequence of Clostridium stercorarium subsp. stercorarium Strain DSM 8532, a Thermophilic Degrader of Plant Cell Wall Fibers". Genome Announcements. 1 (2): e00073-13–e00073-13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00073-13. ISSN 2169-8287. PMC 3593316. PMID 23516204.

Further reading


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.