Table 1.

Strains and plasmids used in this study

Strain and plasmid	Genotype	Reference
MG1655 ATCC#700926	F- lambda- ilvG- rfb-50 rph-1	Wildtype
E. coli W ATCC#9637	–	Wildtype
E. coli Crooks ATCC#8739	–	Wildtype
ML103	MG1655∆fadD	Li et al. (2012a)
pXZ18Z	pTrc99a-acyl Thioesterase R. communis-fabZ	San et al. (2011)