@article{mbs:/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.034603-0, author = "Ben Hania, Wajdi and Fraj, Belkis and Postec, Anne and Fadhlaoui, Khaled and Hamdi, Moktar and Ollivier, Bernard and Fardeau, Marie-Laure", title = "Fusibacter tunisiensis sp. nov., isolated from an anaerobic reactor used to treat olive-mill wastewater", journal= "International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology", year = "2012", volume = "62", number = "Pt_6", pages = "1365-1368", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.034603-0", url = "https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.034603-0", publisher = "Microbiology Society", issn = "1466-5034", type = "Journal Article", abstract = "Strain BELH1T, a novel mesophilic, anaerobic, halotolerant, rod-shaped bacterium, was isolated from a Tunisian wastewater digester. The cells of the strain are motile, measure 0.5×2–5 µm, and occur singly or in pairs. The strain reduced thiosulfate and elemental sulfur (but not sulfate or sulfite) into sulfide. It grew at 15–40 °C (optimum 30 °C), pH 5.8–8.4 (optimum 7) and with 0–10 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 3.0 %). The genomic DNA G+C content of strain BELH1T was 38.2 mol% and the strain’s predominant cellular fatty acids were C14 : 0, asummed feature that contained iso-C17 : 1 and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B, and C16 : 0. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the novel strain was most closely related to Fusibacter paucivorans (94.8 % sequence similarity). Based on phenotypic, phylogenetic and taxonomic characteristics, strain BELH1T represents a novel species of the genus Fusibacter , for which the name Fusibacter tunisiensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BELH1T ( = DSM 24436T = JCM 17481T).", }