CHARACTERIZATION AND ECOLOGY OF CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULASE-PRODUCING ANAEROBIC BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTESTINAL-TRACT OF THE PINFISH, LAGODON RHOMBOIDES

Authors
STELLWAG EJ SMITH TD LUCZKOVICH JJ
Citation
Ej. Stellwag et al., CHARACTERIZATION AND ECOLOGY OF CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULASE-PRODUCING ANAEROBIC BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTESTINAL-TRACT OF THE PINFISH, LAGODON RHOMBOIDES, Applied and environmental microbiology, 61(2), 1995, pp. 813-816
Citations number
31
Categorie Soggetti
Microbiology,"Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
Applied and environmental microbiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00992240
Volume
61
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
813 - 816
Database
ISI
SICI code
0099-2240(1995)61:2<813:CAEOCA>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Carboxymethylcellulase (CMCase)-producing obligate anaerobes were isol ated from the intestinal tract contents but not the feeding habitat of seagrass-consuming pinfish. Taxonomic characterization of these CMCas e-producing strains revealed four taxonomic clusters; three were clost ridial and one was of unknown taxonomic affinity. Our results demonstr ated that the CMCase-producing obligate anaerobe community from pinfis h differed from functionally similar microbial communities in terrestr ial herbivores.