Syntrophomonas sapovorans Roy et al., 1987
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- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
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Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Eubacteriales
- family
- Syntrophomonadaceae
- genus
- Syntrophomonas
- species
- Syntrophomonas sapovorans
Abstract
Syntrophomonas sapovorans is a bacterium. It is anaerobic, syntrophic, and fatty acid-oxidizing and obligately proton-reducing. Its type strain is OM. It has a doubling time of 40 hours. It is part of the family Syntrophomonadaceae based on comparative small-subunit (SSU) rRNA sequence analysis. This family currently contains three genera, Syntrophomonas, Syntrophospora, and Thermosyntropha, as well as two closely related isolates, strains FSM2 and FSS7.