''Methylophaga sulfidovorans'' is an obligately
methylotrophic, aerobic,
dimethylsulfide
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or methylthiomethane is an organosulfur compound with the formula (CH3)2S. Dimethyl sulfide is a flammable liquid that boils at and has a characteristic disagreeable odor. It is a component of the smell produced from cook ...
-oxidizing bacterium. It is
Gram-negative
Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...
, oval, with strain RB-1.
References
Further reading
*De Zwart, J., J. Sluis, and J. Gijs Kuenen. "Competition for Dimethyl Sulfide and Hydrogen Sulfide by Methylophaga sulfidovorans and Thiobacillus thioparus T5 in Continuous Cultures." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63.8 (1997): 3318–3322.
*de Zwart, Jolyn Martha Maria. "Ecophysiology and Modeling of DMS metabolism by Methylophaga sulfidovorans." (1997).
External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Methylophaga sulfidovorans'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Piscirickettsiaceae
Bacteria described in 1998
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