Biology:Clostridium aerotolerans

Short description: Species of bacterium

Clostridium aerotolerans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Eubacteriales
Family:	Lachnospiraceae
Genus:	Clostridium
Species:	C. aerotolerans
Binomial name
Clostridium aerotolerans van Gylswyk and van der Toorn 1987; emend. Chamkha et al. 2001

Clostridium aerotolerans is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium.

Clostridium aerotolerans is xylanolytic, which means that these bacteria can digest the polysaccharides collectively known as xylan. Among this species' products are formic acid, acetic acid, lactic acids, ethanol, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.

References

• van Gylswyk, N. O.; van der Toorn, J. J. T. K. (1987), "Clostridium aerotolerans sp. nov., a Xylanolytic Bacterium from Corn Stover and from the Rumina of Sheep Fed Corn Stover", International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 37 (2): 102–105, doi:10.1099/00207713-37-2-102 
• "Clostridium aerotolerans: van Gylswyk and van der Toorn, 1987". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=36832. 

External links

• UniProt. "Clostridium aerotolerans". https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/36832. 
• Type strain of Clostridium aerotolerans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Wikidata ☰ Q3681001 entry