Butyrivibrio hungatei is a species of Gram-negative, anaerobic, non-spore-forming, butyrate-producing bacterium. It is a curved, rod-shaped, motile bacterium with a single polar or subpolar flagellum, and is commonly found in the rumen of ruminants. The type strain is JK 615T (= DSM 14810T = ATCC BAA-456T).
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Further reading
Mrazek, J., et al. "Diet-dependent shifts in ruminal butyrate-producing bacteria."Folia microbiologica 51.4 (2006): 294-298. Stack, ROBERT J. "Neutral sugar composition of extracellular polysaccharides produced by strains of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 54.4 (1988): 878–883.
External links LPSN Type strain of Butyrivibrio hungatei at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase