Syntrophomonas zehnderi

Syntrophomonas zehnderi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Syntrophomonadaceae
Genus:	Syntrophomonas
Species:	S. zehnderi
Binomial name
Syntrophomonas zehnderi Sousa et al. 2007

Syntrophomonas zehnderi is a bacterium. It is anaerobic, syntrophic (in association with methanogens, particularly Methanobacterium formicicum) and fatty acid-oxidizing. The type strain is OL-4^T (=DSM 17840^T =JCM 13948^T). Cells are slightly curved, non-motile rods.

Further reading

• Hansen, Kaare H., Birgitte K. Ahring, and Lutgarde Raskin. "Quantification of syntrophic fatty acid-β-oxidizing bacteria in a mesophilic biogas reactor by oligonucleotide probe hybridization." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65.11 (1999): 4767–4774.
• Staley, James T., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 3."Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD (1989): 2250–2251.
• Alfons J. M. Stams; Diana Z. Sousa; Robbert Kleerebezem & Caroline M. Plugge (2012). "Role of syntrophic microbial communities in high-rate methanogenic bioreactors". Water Science and Technology. 66 (2): 352–362. doi:10.2166/wst.2012.192. hdl:1822/22282. PMID 22699340.
• Cavaleiro, A.J.; Sousa, D.Z.; Alves, M.M. (2010). "Methane production from oleate: Assessing the bioaugmentation potential of Syntrophomonas zehnderi". Water Research. 44 (17): 4940–4947. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2010.07.039. hdl:1822/11478. ISSN 0043-1354. PMID 20696454.

External links

• "Syntrophomonas zehnderi". The Encyclopedia of Life.
• LPSN
• Type strain of Syntrophomonas zehnderi at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase