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Zellwandstrukturen bei Methan-Bakterien

Zur Evolution der Prokaryonten

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None of the representatives of the four genera of methanogenic bacteria available in pure culture were found to contain the typical cell-wall polymer (murein, peptidoglycan) found in all other bacteria and cyanobacteria. However, each of the four genera contains different cell-wall polymers, indicating a very early divergence not only of the methanogens from all other procaryotes, but also of the various genera of the methanogens from one another. This assumption is compatible with the dendrogram of bacterial evolution derived from comparative cataloguing of the 16 S rRNS of bacteria.

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Dr. J.G. Zeikus, Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison/USA, Prof. U. Sleytr, Institut für Lebensmitteltechnologie, Universität für Bodenkultur, Wien, und Dr. H. Hippe, Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen, Abteilung Göttingen, sind wir für die Überlassung von licht- und elektronenmikroskopischen Aufnahmen, Dr. R.C. Wolfe, Department of Microbiology, University of Urbana/USA, für die Überlassung von Zellmaterial zu großem Dank verpflichtet. Die Untersuchungen über die Chemie der Zellwände wurden zunächst von der Deutschen Sammlung von Mikroorganismen, im weiteren Verlauf durch eine Sachbeihilfe der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft unterstützt.

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Kandler, O. Zellwandstrukturen bei Methan-Bakterien. Naturwissenschaften 66, 95–105 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00373500

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