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    Thermophilic Anaerobic Oxidation of Butyrate in Axenic Culture

    Normally, propionate and butyrate account for approximately 20% of the methane produced in an anaerobic digestion. The degradation of these volatile fatty acids involves at least two groups of bacteria, the ob...

    Birgitte Ahring, Peter Westermann, R. A. Mah in Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict An… (1990)

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    Methanogenesis from Propionate in Sludge and Enrichment Systems

    The biological formation of methane from organic matter is a complex microbiological process involving many physiologically dependent relationships between and among a diversity of heterotrophic fermentative a...

    R. A. Mah, L.-Y. Xun, D. R. Boone, B. Ahring in Microbiology and Biochemistry of Strict An… (1990)