This is kind of old news but if you are tired of growing Shewanella on lactate try a carbohydrate like glucose, sucrose, or arabinose… But wait, you need to find out which “candy” your Shewanella can dine on. You can look this up in “Genomic encyclopedia of sugar utilization pathways in theShewanella genus” by Rodionov and colleagues. The paper is open access so enjoy… Heres the reference.
“Genomic encyclopedia of sugar utilization pathways in the Shewanella genus.” Dmitry A Rodionov, Chen Yang, Xiaoqing Li, Irina A Rodionova, Yanbing Wang, Anna Y Obraztsova, Olga P Zagnitko, Ross Overbeek, Margaret F Romine, Samantha Reed, James K Fredrickson, Kenneth H Nealson, and Andrei L Osterman BMC Genomics. 2010; 11: 494. Published online 2010 September 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-494.
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