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Abstract

The phylogenetic positions of two strains of fermentative bacteria that had been isolated from the highest positive tubes inoculated with serial dilutions of estuarine mud in agar media with either glutamate or aspartate as substrate were determined by comparative sequence analysis of their 16S rRNA genes. The strain isolated with glutamate (glu 65) utilized several substrates, including a number of amino acids but no sugars. The degradation of certain substrates was enhanced by or dependent upon co-cultivation with a hydrogen-utilizing partner. In earlier work this strain was assigned to the new genus and species . On the basis of its 16S rRNA gene sequence has now been identified as a member of cluster XI of the subphylum with as its closest relative. The aspartate-fermenting strain asp 66 was a Gram-negative, rather aerotolerant anaerobe which utilized a wide range of substrates in a propionic fermentation and had the ability to fix molecular nitrogen. Strain asp 66 was shown to be a new member of the β-subclass of the with sp. strain 6a3 and as its closest relatives. It is described as gen nov., sp. nov., with the type strain asp 66 (= DSM 12018).

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