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Syntrophomonadaceae

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The family Syntrophomonadaceae includes a group of anaerobes that commonly grow in syntrophic associations with molecular hydrogen (H2)- and formate-using methanogens. The energy source for these organisms is the oxidation of carboxylic acids of four carbons or more. This oxidation is normally coupled to the production of H2 or formate, which is consumed by methanogens or other organisms. The Syntrophomonadaceae are phylogenetically a part of the phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with low DNA G+C −content. −Although −many −of −the −members of this family have cell walls typical of Gram-positive bacteria, several genera (Syntrophomonas, Thermosyntropha, Pelospora and Syntrophothermus) have cell walls typical of Gram-negative bacteria, with the outer membrane of Syntrophomonas confirmed by electron microscopy. The division between Gram-negative and Gram-positive microbes has historically been considered an indicator of the deepest taxonomic separations (Buchanan and Gibbons,...

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Microbiology, University of Minnesota, Box 196, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0312, USA

    Martin Dworkin Professor Dr. (Editor-in-Chief) (Editor-in-Chief)

  2. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University Medical School, 299 Campus Drive, Fairchild, D039, Stanford, CA, 94305-5124, USA

    Stanley Falkow

  3. Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Eugene Rosenberg

  4. Department of Microbiology, Technical University Munich, 80290, Munich, Germany

    Karl-Heinz Schleifer

  5. DSMZ- German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH, Mascheroder Weg 1b, 38124, Braunschweig, Germany

    Erko Stackebrandt

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Sobieraj, M., Boone, D.R. (2006). Syntrophomonadaceae. In: Dworkin, M., Falkow, S., Rosenberg, E., Schleifer, KH., Stackebrandt, E. (eds) The Prokaryotes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30744-3_37

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