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Out of different soil samples from neutral environments 50 thermo-acidophilic bacilli were isolated. All 23 strains tested contain ω-cyclohexane fatty acids in the range of 15–91% of the total fatty acids. In this group six strains possess hopane containing lipids (hopanoids). In contrast Bacillus coagulans, sometimes described as thermoacidophilic, contains no ω-cyclohexane fatty acids as was shown in seven strains. The degree to which the described strains were related to Bacillus acidocaldarius could not definitely be determined.
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To Prof. Dr. Erwin Bünning on the occasion of his 75th birthday
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Hippchen, B., Röll, A. & Poralla, K. Occurrence in soil of thermo-acidophilic bacilli possessing ω-cyclohexane fatty acids and hopanoids. Arch. Microbiol. 129, 53–55 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00417180
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00417180