| butyrate- and propionate-degrading syntrophs from permanently cold marine sediments in skan bay, alaska, and description of algorimarina butyrica gen. nov., sp. nov. | two anaerobic, psychrotolerant, syntrophic strains were enriched from permanently cold, shallow anoxic marine sediments in skan bay, alaska. one strain, ak-b(t), oxidized butyrate syntrophically and was isolated in defined coculture with a h(2)-using methanogen or in a dixenic coculture that also contained an acetate-scavenging methanogen. the other enrichment culture syntrophically oxidized propionate. the growth of these syntrophic cultures was very slow: approximately 1 year for cocultures of ... | 2006 | 16907746 |